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The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth Century

By Giuseppe Tucci

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 683–702English

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  • “Modern researches have shown that Mahidyina Buddhism continued to exist in India up to quite recent times”
  • “Buddhagupta was, as many of the Indian sadhus always have been, a preat traveller”
  • “It is perhaps the only Tibetan treatise, at least to cur knowledge, in which we find a great deal of direct information ahout some places in India and chiefly outside India proper which are not vsually connected with Buddhist canonical tradition”

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  1. D. C. Sen (new edition), p. 27
  2. Waddell, Lamaism, 9. 307 and Proceedings, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1893
  3. Von Zach, Lexricographische Beitvige, 1, 0: 83 and 111, p. 108
  4. Lauler, Loan words in Tibatan, p. 434

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Vol. 7 · No. 4
629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe TucciCurrent article689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda779–782Bibliographical Notes

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