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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Chapter 4 THROUGH THE TS'UNG OR ONION MOUNTAINS TO K'EEH-CH'A;-PROBABLY SKARDO, OR SOME CITY MORE TO THE EAST IN LADAK

Word Count: 537    |    Released on: 28/11/2017

Law,(1) and proceeded towards Kophene.(2) Fa-Hsien and the others went forward to the kingdom of Tsze-hoh, which it took them twenty-five days

g mountains, and reached the country of Yu-hwuy,(5) where they halted and kept their retreat.(6) When this was over, they we

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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
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“Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot from China to India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts. His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Xian of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline. Antiquated transliterations of his name include Fa-Hien and Fa-hsien. Annnotation- added sticky notes to paragraph for better understanding of historical point of view.”