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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

by Fa-Hien | A.D. 399-414 | 51,094 words

Buddhism

Summary: Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-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

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Contents of this online book ( + / - )

The full text of the A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms in English is available here and publically accesible (free to read online). Of course, I would always recommend buying the book so you get the latest edition. You can see all this book’s content by visiting the pages in the below index:

Preface
Introduction
Chapter I - From Ch’ang-gan To The Sandy Desert
Chapter II - On To Shen-shen And Thence To Khoten
Chapter III - Khoten
Chapter IV - Through The Ts'ung Or "onion" Mountains To K'eeh-ch'a
Chapter V - Great Quinquennial Assembly Of Monks
Chapter VI - On Towards North India, Darada
Chapter VII - Crossing Of The Indus
Chapter VIII - Woo-chang, Or Udyana
Chapter IX - Soo-ho-to
Chapter X - Gandhara
Chapter XI - Takshasila
Chapter XII - Purushapura, Or Peshawur
Chapter XIII - Nagara
Chapter XIV - Death Of Hwuy-king In The Little Snowy Mountains
Chapter XV - Bhida
Chapter XVI - On To Mathura Or Muttra
Chapter XVII - Sankasya
Chapter XVIII - Kanyakubja, Or Canouge.
Chapter XIX - Sha-che
Chapter XX - Kosala And Sravasti
Chapter XXI - The Three Predecessors Of Sakyamuni In The Buddhaship
Chapter XXII - Kapilavastu
Chapter XXIII - Rama, And Its Tope
Chapter XXIV - Where Buddha Finally Renounced The World
Chapter XXV - Vaisali
Chapter XXVI - Remarkable Death Of Ananda
Chapter XXVII - Pataliputtra Or Patna, In Magadha
Chapter XXVIII - Rajagriha, New And Old
Chapter XXIX - Gridhra-kuta Hill, And Legends
Chapter XXX - The Srataparna Cave, Or Cave Of The First Council
Chapter XXXI - Gaya
Chapter XXXII - Legend Of King Asoka In A Former Birth
Chapter XXXIII - Mount Gurupada
Chapter XXXIV - On The Way Back To Patna
Chapter XXXV - Dakshina, And The Pigeon Monastery
Chapter XXXVI - In Patna
Chapter XXXVII - To Champa And Tamalipti
Chapter XXXVIII - At Ceylon
Chapter XXXIX - Cremation Of An Arhat
Chapter XL - After Two Years Takes Ship For China

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