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In the Forest of the Blind
The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms
Matthew W. King
Columbia University Press
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The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Faxian’s journey in the early fifth century CE to Buddhist sites in Central and South Asia in search of sacred texts. In the nineteenth century, it traveled west to France, becoming in translation the first scholarly book about “Buddhist Asia,” a recent invention of Europe. This text fascinated European academic Orientalists and was avidly studied by Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. The book went on to make a return journey east: it was reintroduced to Inner Asia in an 1850s translation into Mongolian, after which it was rendered into Tibetan in 1917. Amid decades of upheaval, the text was read and reinterpreted by Siberian, Mongolian, and Tibetan scholars and Buddhist monks.
Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the transnational literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s Record. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery.
King shows how the text provided Inner Asian readers with new historical resources to make sense of their histories as well as their own times, in the process developing an Asian historiography independently of Western influence. Reconstructing this circulatory history and featuring annotated translations, In the Forest of the Blind models decolonizing methods and approaches for Buddhist studies and Asian humanities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew W. King is associate professor in transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia, 2019), which won the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies from the American Academy of Religion.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction
1. Chang’an to India
2. Beijing to Paris
3. Buddhist Asia to Jambudvīpa
4. Jambudvīpa to Science
5. Science to History of the Dharma
Conclusion
Appendix. The Inner Asian Record
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Conventions
Introduction
1. Chang’an to India
2. Beijing to Paris
3. Buddhist Asia to Jambudvīpa
4. Jambudvīpa to Science
5. Science to History of the Dharma
Conclusion
Appendix. The Inner Asian Record
Notes
Bibliography
Index
【得眼林中：法顯《佛國記》歐亞紀行】
Matthew W. King（加州大學宗教學系副教授）對《佛國記》的流通、翻譯與解釋，提出跨國文學、社會與政治史的開創性看法。他多層解讀該書流傳的過程，對比歐洲學術界與內亞寺院之間的文本與傳統解釋。King揭示內亞讀者如何從《佛國記》中取得新的歷史資源，使他們能更瞭解自己的時代與歷史，並在此過程中發展出獨立於西方影響的亞洲史學史。《得眼林中：法顯《佛國記》歐亞紀行》（In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms）重建這段流轉的歷史，搭配有註解的譯文，為 ＃佛教研究 與亞洲人文學建立了非殖民化的研究方法與途徑。
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