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History and Religious Life
Historical accounts of Chinese Buddhist life — early surveys of the tradition and pilgrims' own travel records in public-domain translation.
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Texts
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms — Fa-Hien (Legge)James Legge's 1886 translation of Fa-Hien's account of his pilgrimage from China to India and Ceylon in search of Buddhist scripture, A.D. 399-414.Buddhism and Buddhists in China — Lewis HodousLewis Hodous's complete 1924 historical and observational study of Buddhist institutions and religious life in China.Chinese Buddhism — Joseph EdkinsJoseph Edkins's 1893 survey of Chinese Buddhism — history, patriarchs, cosmology, festivals, temple life, and literature — including his own comparisons to Confucianism, Daoism, and Christianity.