A record of Buddhist monasteries in Lo-Yang

by Yang Hsüan-Chih

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First edition

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 310, 2 ; frontispiece, 2 full-page maps, 6 illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A major document of Chinese history and literature. This translation of the sixth-century A.D. classic describes the main Buddhist monasteries and nunneries of Lo-yang and the political, economic, and social conditions at a time when that city was the capital of the Northern Wei

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