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ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION.[1]
The "Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms," in one volume, was composed by Sung Shih, otherwise called Fa Hsien. Tu Yu[2] in his T'ung Tien quotes this work, but makes the author Fa Ming. He did so because the word Hsien had been appropriated by the emperor Chung Tsung,[3] and men of the T'ang dynasty had substituted Ming. For this reason there occur in the original commentary the four words "changed because imperially appropriated."
Fa Hsien returned during the I Hsi period[4] of the Chin dynasty, having started from Ch'ang-ngan and travelled
- ↑ This has never to our knowledge been translated before; neither have the two Notes by native scholars which follow Chapter XL. See Appendix.
- ↑ Here 杜佑. Mr. Mayers, in his Chinese Reader's Manual, gives 杜祜, who is evidently the same individual. "9th century A.D. A scholar of profound erudition." His great work, the 通典, is classed by Mr. Wylie in his Notes on Chinese Literature among "Treatises on the Constitution." It was in 200 books, divided into 8 sections on Political Economy, Music, Geography, etc.
- ↑ A.D. 648.
- ↑ The style I Hsi began A.D. 405. Fa Hsien got back to China in the twelfth year or A.D. 417.
