A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Name: A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Author: Faxian

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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

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Project Gutenberg

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Ronald Grenier (This file was modified from an original transcription created by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger for PG EBook 2124. Images were generously made available by The Internet Archive/Wellcome Libraries.)

Release date

2021-02-12

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

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

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.

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