Year of manufacture: 1904-1905
Author: Xuan Zang
Genre: History of India and Central Asia. Buddhology
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society. London
Series: Oriental Translation Fund. Vol. XIV
English language
Format: DjVu
Number of pages: volume 1 - xiii + 401 pages, volume 2 - 357 pages + 2 maps

Another translation of the "Notes" by Xuan Zang (for details on the contents of the Notes, see the description for the edition of Samuel Beal) by Si-Yu-Ki [by S. Bilu] / Hsi-yu-shi [by T. Watters] performed by Thomas Watters, a prominent scholar of sinology. Watters spent several years studying and scrupulously researching "Notes" by Xuan Zang, which resulted in a translation in the Oriental Translation Fund series. Vol. XIV, published by the Royal Asian Society in London. The publication came out under the editorship of two prominent Orientalists, T.V. Rice-Davids and S.V. Bushel. For a long time, the published translation remained a bibliographic rarity and, on the initiative of the Royal Asian Society, an additional edition of the stereotypical edition of the book was published. In the distribution of the first edition in the form of two-volume.

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