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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

EN·~4 hours·44 chapters

Chapters

44 total

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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms - Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fâ-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline - Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text - BY JAMES LEGGE

0:53

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PREFACE

11:08

3

INTRODUCTION

16:42

4

THE TRAVELS OF FÂ-HIEN or RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS

0:03

5

CHAPTER I. FROM CH’ANG-GAN TO THE SANDY DESERT

8:58

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CHAPTER II. ON TO SHEN-SHEN AND THENCE TO KHOTEN

9:38

7

CHAPTER III. KHOTEN. PROCESSIONS OF IMAGES. THE KING’S NEW MONASTERY.

11:22

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CHAPTER IV. THROUGH THE TS’UNG OR “ONION” MOUNTAINS TO K’EEH-CH’A;—PROBABLY SKARDO, OR SOME CITY MORE TO THE EAST IN LADAK.

3:29

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CHAPTER V. GREAT QUINQUENNIAL ASSEMBLY OF MONKS. RELICS OF BUDDHA. PRODUCTIONS OF THE COUNTRY.

3:55

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CHAPTER VI. ON TOWARDS NORTH INDIA. DARADA. IMAGE OF MAITREYA BODHISATTVA.

4:12

Collections

Buddhism

27 titles

India

76 titles

Travel Writing

955 titles

History - Ancient

418 titles

Details

Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (285K characters)

Release date

2006-03-28

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2124

Subjects

Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India -- Early works to 1800 Buddhism -- Early works to 1800 Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 DS

About the author

Faxian

A Chinese Buddhist monk, translator, and one of history’s great travel writers, he set out in the early 5th century to seek sacred texts and record the Buddhist world he encountered. His vivid account of the journey became a lasting source for the history of India, Central Asia, and Chinese Buddhism.