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Product Description: Several times during my long residence in Hong Kong I endeavoured to read through the "Narrative of Fa-hien;" but though interested with the graphic details of much of the work, its columns bristled so constantlyânow with his phonetic representations of Sanskrit words, and now with his substitution for them of their meanings in Chinese characters, and I was, moreover, so much occupied with my own special labours on the Confucian Classics, that my success was far from satisfactory...read more
Hardcover:
9781437825602 | Indypublish.Com, June 30, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Several times during my long residence in Hong Kong I endeavoured to read through the "Narrative of Fa-hien;" but though interested with the graphic details of much of the work, its columns bristled so constantlyânow with his phonetic representations of Sanskrit words, and now with his substitution for them of their meanings in Chinese characters, and I was, moreover, so much occupied with my own special labours on the Confucian Classics, that my success was far from satisfactory.
9781404328020 | Indypublish.Com, October 1, 2002, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Several times during my long residence in Hong Kong I endeavoured to read through the "Narrative of Fa-hien;" but though interested with the graphic details of much of the work, its columns bristled so constantlyânow with his phonetic representations of Sanskrit words, and now with his substitution for them of their meanings in Chinese characters, and I was, moreover, so much occupied with my own special labours on the Confucian Classics, that my success was far from satisfactory.
Paperback:
9781419144080 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9781414207247 | Indypublish.Com, November 1, 2003, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Several times during my long residence in Hong Kong I endeavoured to read through the "Narrative of Fa-hien;" but though interested with the graphic details of much of the work, its columns bristled so constantlyânow with his phonetic representations of Sanskrit words, and now with his substitution for them of their meanings in Chinese characters, and I was, moreover, so much occupied with my own special labours on the Confucian Classics, that my success was far from satisfactory.
9781404328037 | Indypublish.Com, October 1, 2002, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
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9780486267609 | Dover Pubns, May 1, 1991, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms--Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hein of Travels in India and Ceylon (Ad 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, is one of the most important source for reconstructing the life and conditions of the times.
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