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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

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

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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Chapter XV - Bhida

Sympathy Of Monks With The Pilgrims

After they had crossed the river, there was a country named Pe-t’oo,[1] where Buddhism was very flourishing, and (the monks) studied both the mahayana and hinayana. When they saw their fellow-disciples from Ts’in passing along, they were moved with great pity and sympathy, and expressed themselves thus: “How is it that these men from a border-land should have learned to become monks,[2] and come for the sake of our doctrines from such a distance in search of the Law of Buddha?� They supplied them with what they needed, and treated them in accordance with the rules of the Law.

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[1]:

Bhida. Eitel says, “The present Punjab;� i.e. it was a portion of that.

[2]:

“To come forth from their families;� that is, to become celibates, and adopt the tonsure.

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