Through a comparative study of Tibetan and Chinese versions of Buddhist Records of the Western World, the writer finds out that Mgon-po-skyabs, the Tibetan translator, in his faithful translation of 138 countries, made some change of the general structure in the Tibetan version, such as using Tibetan numbers to arrange the order of the countries and making notes and supplementary translations for the names of temples, pagodas, places, mountains and rivers, which provide precious materials for later studies.
