To the Five Bamboo Kingdom, Fu Jian's annotation of the "Record of a Journey to Explain the Scriptures"

Author: Tang Huichao
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Features: Huichao traveled to India in the Tang Dynasty to seek Buddhist teachings and wrote Journey to the Five Regions of India upon his return. This book records the conditions of the countries he passed through and serves as an important source for studying Central Asia and India in the 8th century. The entire book is lost, with only fragments surviving in Dunhuang manuscripts. Scholars from China and abroad have extensively researched and annotated it, incorporating various insights and providing detailed discussions on historical events. Journey of a Traveler was written by Du Huan, who was captured by the Muslim army during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. He traveled through various regions in Central and Western Asia before returning to China and wrote this book to record his observations in different countries, making it one of the earliest Chinese accounts of the Islamic world. The original book is lost, but it has been compiled and annotated based on Tongdian. The author has also made punctuation corrections based on photographs of the original Dunhuang manuscripts, added subheadings, and corrected errors in previous interpretations of the text. Additionally, the author has utilized recent academic research on South and Central Asia to supplement and revise inaccuracies or shortcomings in Fujiwara's annotations.