Abel Remusat published a translation of a Chinese
Pilgrim's travels in 1836; M. Stanislais Julien completed his volume on
Hiouen Thsang in 1858; and in 1884 Rev. Samuel Beal issued his Travels
of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist Pilgrims from China to India (400
A.D. and 518 A.D.). The latter work contains a map.]
[Footnote 6: B.N., p. 3.]
[Footnote 7: B.N., p. 11.]
[Footnote 8: Three hundred and twenty million years. See Century
Dictionary.]
[Footnote 9: See the paper of Rev. Sh[=o]-hen Ueda of the Shingon sect,
in B.N., pp. 20-31; and R. Fujishima's Le Bouddhisme Japonais, pp. xvi.,
xvii., from which most of the information here given has been derived.]
[Footnote 10: M.E., p. 383; S. and H., pp. 23, 30. The image of Binzuru
is found in many Japanese temples to-day, a famous one being at Asakusa,
in T[=o]ki[=o]. He is the supposed healer of all diseases. The image
becomes entirely rubbed smooth by devotees, to the extinguishment of all
features, lines, and outlines.]
[Footnote 11: Davids's Buddhism, pp. 180, 200; S. and H., pp. (87) 389,
416.]
[Footnote 12: B.N., pp. 32-43.]
[Footnote 13: B.N., pp. 44-56.]
[Footnote 14: Japanese Fairy World, p. 282; Anderson's Catalogue, pp.
l03-7.]
[Footnote 15: B.
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