File SC13/6 - List of the Principal Buddhist works from the Pali in Chinese character

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Reference code

GB 891 SC13-SC13/6

Title

List of the Principal Buddhist works from the Pali in Chinese character

Date(s)

  • 1845 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

handwritten

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (Charles Gutzlaff), was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and Korea (1832). He was also the first Lutheran missionary to China. He was aread more

Archival history

The list was supplied at the request of Colonel William Henry Sykes for the preparation of an article, On a Catalogue of Chinese Buddhistical Works, for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol:9, 1848.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

The list was received from Gutzlaff for the use of William Henry Sykes.

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Scope and content

'List of the Principal Budhistical works from the Pali in Chinese character by Mt Gutzlaff' - a list of works with titles in both Chinese and English, and with some description of the manuscripts, compiled by Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff in 1845. Theread more

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Language of material

  • English
  • Chinese

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Related units of description

The associated article On a Catalogue of Chinese Buddhistical Works, can be found in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol:9, 1848.

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