Year of manufacture: 1896
Author: I Ching
Genre: History of India. Buddhology
Publisher: The Clarendon Press. Oxford
English language
Format:PDF
Number of pages: lxiv + 240 pages.

And the Jing (635-713 gg.) Chinese traveler and preacher of Buddhism. In 671, Mr .. visited a number of Indian states. Ten years he lived in the Buddhist monastery of Nalanda. And the Jing collected and captured unique information about the monastic life of the early medieval India, he recorded a large number of reports on the way of life, the way of life, the legends, and the scientific life of the famous Buddhist centers of India.
The text of the records is also a detailed source of information on the composition of Buddhist literature in India, since I Ching was an expert in Winai and traveled to India to clarify the composition of this part of the Canon. This journey lasted for twenty-five years, during which I Ching visited more than 30 countries. Thus, one of the main goals of his mission was to collect the authentic texts of the school Mulasarvastivada, so that the erroneous views of Chinese scientists on the composition of Vinaya Pitaka could be corrected. A dangerous journey from China to India and the return voyage on a Persian merchant ship (he spent several years on the island of Sumatra) did not interfere with the fulfillment of his intended task. And the Jing collected about 400 Sanskrit texts in India, and upon his arrival in China in 695, he spent the rest of his life for their translation.

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