Introductory material
Kumārajīva translation
Acknowledgement for permission to use the above illustrations is gratefully made to the British Museum and Dr. Lionel Giles for Nos. 1, 9, and 12; to Lady Hosie for No. 2, and to the Bodleian Library for the other illustrations, which are taken from the eighteenth-century woodcuts of the 釋迦如來應化事蹟, Shih-chia Ju-lai Ying-hua Shih-chi, or Scenes from the Life of the Buddha.