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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

Chapter 8 WOO-CHANG, OR UDYANA. MONASTERIES, AND THEIR WAYS. TRACES OF BUDDHA.

Word Count: 553    |    Released on: 28/11/2017

entral India" being what we should call the "Middle Kingdom." The food and clothes of the common people are the same as in that Central Kingdom. The Law of Buddha is very (flourishing i

eir wants are supplied for three days, after which

g to the ideas of the beholder (on the subject). It exists, and the same thing is true about it, at the present day. Here also are still to be seen the rock on which

he country of Nagara;(4) but Fa-Hsien and the others remained in Woo-chang, and kept the sum

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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.”