# A Record of the Buddhist Religion as practised in India and the Malay Archipelago

Translation of zh:南海寄歸內法傳
A RECORD
OF
THE BUDDHIST RELIGION
AS PRACTISED IN
INDIA AND THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
(A.D. 671-695)
By I-TSING
Translated by J. TAKAKUSU, B.A., PH.D.
With a letter from the Right Hon. Professor F. Max Müller
WITH A MAP
Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1896
Oxford
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
BY HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

## CONTENTS.
### Map of I-tsing's Route to India and Back, with some Geographical Names mentioned in his Record

    [to face title-page]

### Letter from the Right Honourable Professor F. Max Müller to Mr. J. Takakusu.

    ... ix

### General Introduction:—
   ### Preliminary Remarks

       ... xvii

      ### The Mûlasarvâstivâda School

          ... xxi

      ### The Result of I-tsing's Description of the Buddhist Schools

          ... xxiii

   ### The Life and Travels of I-tsing:—
      ### I. His Boyhood, to his Departure from China

          ... xxv

      ### II. His Journey to India

          ... xxvii

      ### III. His Return Home, to his Death

          ... xxxvii

   ### Notes on some Geographical Names:—
      ### I. The Country of the Naked People

          ... xxxviii

      ### II. The Islands of the Southern Sea

          ... xxxix

      ### III. Further India or Indo-China

          ... li

      ### IV. India and Ceylon

          ... lii

   ### The Date of I-tsing's Work

       ... liii

   ### Tables of several Literary Men and Buddhist Teachers of India, with their dates and successions, made from the Record of Buddhist Practices of I-tsing

       ... lv

   ### The Text

       ... lx

   ### Additional Notes to the Map

       ... lxiv ​

### A Record of Buddhist Practices sent Home from the Southern Sea. By I-Tsing:—
   ### Introduction

       ... 1

   ### I. Regarding the Non-observance of the Varsha (or Vassa, Summer-Retreat)

       ... 21

   ### II. Behaviour towards the Honoured

       ... 21

   ### III. On Sitting on a Small Chair at Dinner

       ... 22

   ### IV. Distinction between Pure and Impure Food

       ... 24

   ### V. Cleansing after Meals

       ... 26

   ### VI. Two Jugs for keeping Water

       ... 27

   ### VII. The Morning Inspection of Water as to Insects

       ... 30

   ### VIII. Use of Tooth-woods

       ... 33

   ### IX. Rules about the Reception at the Upavasatha-day

       ... 35

   ### X. Necessary Food and Clothing

       ... 53

   ### XI. The Mode of Wearing Garments

       ... 72

   ### XII. Rules Concerning the Nun's Dress and Funeral

       ... 78

   ### XIII. Consecrated Grounds

       ... 82

   ### XIV. The Summer-Retreat of the Five Parishads

       ... 85

   ### XV. Concerning the Pravârana-day

       ... 86

   ### XVI. About Spoons and Chop-sticks

       ... 90

   ### XVII. Proper Occasion for Salutation

       ... 90

   ### XVIII. Concerning Evacuation

       ... 91

   ### XIX. Rules of Ordination

       ... 95

   ### XX. Bathing at Proper Times

       ... 107

   ### XXI. Concerning the Mat to sit on.

       ... 110

   ### XXII. Rules of Sleeping and Resting

       ... 111

   ### XXIII. On the Advantage of Proper Exercise to Health

       ... 114

   ### XXIV. Worship not Mutually Dependent

       ... 115

   ### XXV. Behaviour between Teacher and Pupil

       ... 116

   ### XXVI. Conduct towards Strangers or Friends

       ... 124

   ### XXVII. On Symptoms of Bodily Illness

       ... 126

   ### XXVIII. Rules on Giving Medicine

       ... 130

   ### XXIX. Hurtful Medical Treatment must not be practised

       ... 138

   ### XXX. On Turning to the Right in Worship

       ... 140

   ### XXXI. Rules of Decorum in Cleansing the Sacred Object of Worship

       ... 147

   ### XXXII. The Ceremony of Chanting

       ... 152 ​

   ### XXXIII. An Unlawful Salutation.

       ... 166

   ### XXXIV. The Method of Learning in the West

       ... 167

   ### XXXV. The Rule as to Hair

       ... 185

   ### XXXVI. The Arrangement of Affairs after Death .

       ... 189

   ### XXXVII. The Use of the Common Property of the Sangha

       ... 193

   ### XXXVIII. The Burning of the Body is Unlawful

       ... 195

   ### XXXIX. The Bystanders become Guilty

       ... 197

   ### XL. Such Actions were not practised by the Virtuous of Old

       ... 198

### Names of the Books which are referred to in I-tsing's Works, but not found in the India Office Collection

    ... 216

### Additional Notes

    ... 217

### Corrigenda

    ... 226

### Index

    ... 227
ABBREVIATIONS.
N.B.—When a word or passage is marked with an asterisk *, it has an additional note at the end.
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