A Catalogue of Japanese And Chinese Books And Manuscripts Lately Added to the Bodleian Library
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Yen^n went to China in a.d. 853, and returned to Japan in 858. He met the Indian priest in the former country, ='^ — Shitsu-tan- and learnt from him the 5k; 1=1=. -gg i t>o ^^ -^^ shio, lit. 'a section on the Siddha or the Sanskrit alphabet.' He is now better known by his posthumous title ^FJ gQ -^ SrP A'ishio Daishi, or 'a great teacher called .S'ishio;' which title is mentioned in a note appended to the facsimile. The Sanskrit text con- tains a Dbarawi, but it is not complete ; and the palm- ...leaves are much injured. It begins : NamaA sarvabud- dhabodhisattvebhyaA, etc. The palm-leaves are said to be still preserved among the treasures of the monastery Raikosi, near the Biwa lake, in the province Omi. (b) Another palm-leaf MS., 2 pages, believed to be the writing of the venerable Kasyapa. Formerly pre- served among the treasures of the monastery Horiuai, in the province Yamato; but now belonging to the Imperial Japanese Court. The first page, which is wrongly put under the second, contains the greater part of the Pra(7?iaparamitahrtdaya-sutra ; and the second, the latter passages of this Sutra, and the whole of the UshTiishavigraya-dharami, generally known in Japan as the Son-shio (lit.
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