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Art. XVIII.—Notes of a Correspondence with Sir John Bowring on Buddhist Literature in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

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When Sir John Bowring was on the eve of leaving this country for China, he expressed that willingness which might have been expected from his literary and liberal character, to promote any objects of inquiry which the Royal Asiatic Society might desire to have set on foot. There was no time for any communication with the Society, but I took advantage of the opportunity to suggest the desirableness of endeavouring to ascertain the existence of any of the books which were carried from India to China by Buddhist missionaries, in such numbers, during the first six or seven centuries of the Christian era, availing myself of the details furnished on this head by M. Julien, in his life of Hiouen Thsang. The suggestion has been most zealously acted upon by Sir John; and I have the pleasure to lay before the Society some of the results.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1856

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References

page 320 note 1 They have been received subsequently.— H. H. W.

page 324 note 1 “What is here called a king, is,” says a commentator, “the heart.” Leng implies certainty, and yan, firmness.