Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c8.22

v1.c8.22

From the beginning of the 7th century, more knowledge and information on the Indian languages was transmitted to China through the translations of Buddhist texts, and through the visit of a large number of Chinese monks to India in search of Buddhist scriptures. For example, the second volume of Xuanzang's *Great Tang Records on the Western Region* (《Da Tang Xi Yu ji》) introduces Panini's (vide the entry) 'phonology' 《Sheng Ming Lun》(vide the entry). The third volume of the *Greater Grace Temple Tripitaka Master* (《Da Ci-en Si San-zang Fashi Zhuan, vide the entry), mentions all the grammar that Xuanzang had learnt when he travelled through India. Again, in the fourth volume of the *Western School of Law* and in *Account of Buddhism Dispatched from the South Seas* (《Nan hai ji-gui neifa Zhuan》, vide the entry), there is a comprehensive