1 90 Bibliographical Notice. [No. 2. 



Weber while giving Julien' s work a warm welcome avows his 

 disappointment at the non-publication of a literal translation of the 

 original narrative of Hiouen Thsang. He notices also the vague 

 tone in which the intention to publish so great a desideratum is 

 announced by Julien, ' sans renoncer tontefois a publer plus tard 

 le livre meme de Hiouen Thsang.' The translation of this biogra- 

 phy does not, in his opinion, add much information of importance to 

 what has been furnished by the Editors of the Foe-koue-ki and by 

 the detached translations from the text of Hiouen-Thsang already 

 contributed by Julien, and published by Reinand and Lassen. 



As regards the process of restoring Sanskrit words for which 

 Lassen has given such credit to Julien, and the results of which 

 were published in the Journal Asiatique* in 1 849, "Weber points 

 out a serious omission which deprives the Chinese-Sanskrit Con- 

 cordance of much of its value. The latter contains merely the 

 Chinese titles and the Sanskrit titles as restored by Julien, and not 

 the phonetic transcriptions, from which these last were restored, 

 an omission which debars others from judging for themselves on the 

 accuracy of the restorations : for instance — 



" No. 47, Changtso-pou-tsang of the Concordance is shown as Sar- 

 vastiva-davinaya. No. 119, Chone-i-tsie-yeou-pou-pi-nai-ye-tsang is 

 also shown as Sarvastiva-davinaya. But in enumerating the books 

 brought to China by Hiouen Thsang in the 6th book of this biogra- 

 phy, the author has mentioned the sacred books, or memoirs on the 

 discipline and philosophical treatises of the school Chang-tso-pou 

 as distinct from others of the same character of the school Chone-i- 

 tsie-yeou-pou. Only one of these schools therefore can really be 

 sarvastivada. Perfect reliance cannot be placed on the restoration 

 from the Chinese of the Sanskrit titles of Buddhist works till after 

 due collation of Chinese with Tibetan titles which last are generally 

 found accompanied by the Sanskrit title. According to the Eussian 

 Father Habakuk it would seem that in a Pekin edition of the Kagyar, 

 which has not yet reached Europe, much of the materials for such 

 a collation already exists." 



Weber also notices the terms in which Julien has spoken of 

 Bemusat. He concludes by earnestly entreating the latter to lose no 

 time in bringing out his translation of Hiouen Thsang's original work. 

 * See title of article quoted above by Lassen. 



