Quotes:Edkins, Joseph

Zirkoff, Boris

Edkins, Rev. Joseph (1823-1905). English sinolog and missionary of the London Missionary Society. Was sent to China in 1848, residing at Tientsin, Tchenfu and Peking until 1863. Was connected with the Imperial Chinese Customs from 1880 and resided at Shanghai. Aside from various learned essays written for various Journals, he published several works, such as: Grammar of the Chinese Colloquial Language, Shanghai, 1857.—China’s Place in Philology, London, 1871.—Religion in China, London, 1859; also 1887.—*Chinese Buddhism: A volume of sketches, historical, descriptive and critical. London, 1880; 2nd rev. ed., London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893. xxxiii, 453 pp.—*“Buddhist Doctrine of the Western Heaven,” Lucifer, London, Vol. II, April, 1888, pp. 108-17.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 413

Edkins, Rev. Joseph (1823-1905), *Chinese Buddhism: a volume of Sketches, historical, descriptive and critical, 2nd. ed., rev. London: K. Paul, Triibner & Co., 1893.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 572