Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World

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Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World by Hiuen Tsiang (Xuanzang) translated by Samuel Beal (London, 1884)

Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/siyukibuddhistre01hsuoft
Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/siyukibuddhistre02hsuoft
This literature contains, amongst other valuable works, the records of the travels of various Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited India during the early centuries of our era. These records embody the testimony of independent eye-witnesses as to the facts related in them, and having been faithfully preserved and allotted a place in the collection of the sacred books of the country, their evidence is entirely trustworthy.

It would be impossible to mention seriatim the various points of interest in these works, as they refer to the geography, history, manners, and religion of the people of India. The reader who looks into the pages that follow will find ample material for study on all these questions. But there is one particular that gives a more than usual interest to the records under notice, and that is the evident sincerity and enthusiasm of the travellers themselves. Never did more devoted pilgrims leave their native country to encounter the perils of travel in foreign and distant lands; never did disciples more ardently desire to gaze on the sacred vestiges of their religion; never did men endure greater sufferings by desert, mountain, and sea than these simple-minded earnest Buddhist priests. (Introduction)
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