A Record of Buddhistic KingdomsA Record of Buddhistic KingdomsJames Legge translationChapter navigation44 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterA Record of Buddhistic KingdomsPREFACEINTRODUCTIONChapter I · FROM CH’ANG-GAN TO THE SANDY DESERTChapter II · ON TO SHEN-SHEN AND THENCE TO KHOTENChapter III · KHOTEN. PROCESSIONS OF IMAGES. THE KING’S NEW MONASTERY.Chapter IV · THROUGH THE TS’UNG OR “ONION” MOUNTAINS TO K’EEH-CH’A;—PROBABLY SKARDO, OR SOME CITY MORE TO THE EAST IN LADAK.Chapter V · GREAT QUINQUENNIAL ASSEMBLY OF MONKS. RELICS OF BUDDHA. PRODUCTIONS OF THE COUNTRY.Chapter VI · ON TOWARDS NORTH INDIA. DARADA. IMAGE OF MAITREYA BODHISATTVA.Chapter VII · CROSSING OF THE INDUS. WHEN BUDDHISM FIRST CROSSED THE RIVER FOR THE EASTChapter VIII · WOO-CHANG, OR UDYANA. MONASTERIES, AND THEIR WAYS. TRACES OF BUDDHA.Chapter IX · SOO-HO-TO. LEGEND OF BUDDHA.Chapter X · GANDHARA. LEGENDS OF BUDDHA.Chapter XI · TAKSHASILA. LEGENDS. THE FOUR GREAT TOPES.Chapter XII · PURUSHAPURA, OR PESHAWUR. PROPHECY ABOUT KING KANISHKA AND HIS TOPE. BUDDHA’S ALMS-BOWL. DEATH OF HWUY-YING.Chapter XIII · NAGARA. FESTIVAL OF BUDDHA’S SKULL-BONE. OTHER RELICS, AND HIS SHADOW.Chapter XIV · DEATH OF HWUY-KING IN THE LITTLE SNOWY MOUNTAINS. LO-E. POHNA. CROSSING THE INDUS TO THE EAST.Chapter XV · BHIDA. SYMPATHY OF MONKS WITH THE PILGRIMS.Chapter XVI · ON TO MATHURA OR MUTTRA. CONDITION AND CUSTOMS OF CENTRAL INDIA; OF THE MONKS, VIHARAS, AND MONASTERIES.Chapter XVII · SANKASYA. BUDDHA’S ASCENT TO AND DESCENT FROM THE TRAYASTRIMSAS HEAVEN, AND OTHER LEGENDS.Chapter XVIII · KANYAKUBJA, OR CANOUGE. BUDDHA’S PREACHING.Chapter XIX · SHA-CHE. LEGEND OF BUDDHA’S DANTA-KASHTHA.Chapter XX · KOSALA AND SRAVASTI. THE JETAVANA VIHARA AND OTHER MEMORIALS AND LEGENDS OF BUDDHA. SYMPATHY OF THE MONKS WITH THE PILGRIMS.Chapter XXI · THE THREE PREDECESSORS OF SAKYAMUNI IN THE BUDDHASHIP.Chapter XXII · KAPILAVASTU. ITS DESOLATION. LEGENDS OF BUDDHA’S BIRTH, AND OTHER INCIDENTS IN CONNEXION WITH IT.Chapter XXIII · RAMA, AND ITS TOPE.Chapter XXIV · WHERE BUDDHA FINALLY RENOUNCED THE WORLD, AND WHERE HE DIED.Chapter XXV · VAISALI. THE TOPE CALLED “WEAPONS LAID DOWN.” THE COUNCIL OF VAISALI.Chapter XXVI · REMARKABLE DEATH OF ANANDA.Chapter XXVII · PATALIPUTTRA OR PATNA, IN MAGADHA. KING ASOKA’S SPIRIT-BUILT PALACE AND HALLS. THE BUDDHIST BRAHMAN, RADHA-SAMI. DISPENSARIES AND HOSPITALS.Chapter XXVIII · RAJAGRIHA, NEW AND OLD. LEGENDS AND INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH IT.Chapter XXIX · GRIDHRA-KUTA HILL, AND LEGENDS. FÂ-HIEN PASSES A NIGHT ON IT. HIS REFLECTIONS.Chapter XXX · THE SRATAPARNA CAVE, OR CAVE OF THE FIRST COUNCIL. LEGENDS. SUICIDE OF A BHIKSHU.Chapter XXXI · GAYA. SAKYAMUNI’S ATTAINING TO THE BUDDHASHIP; AND OTHER LEGENDS.Chapter XXXII · LEGEND OF KING ASOKA IN A FORMER BIRTH, AND HIS NARAKA.Chapter XXXIII · MOUNT GURUPADA, WHERE KASYAPA BUDDHA’S ENTIRE SKELETON IS.Chapter XXXIV · ON THE WAY BACK TO PATNA. VARANASI, OR BENARES. SAKYAMUNI’S FIRST DOINGS AFTER BECOMING BUDDHA.Chapter XXXV · DAKSHINA, AND THE PIGEON MONASTERY.Chapter XXXVI · IN PATNA. FÂ-HIEN’S LABOURS IN TRANSCRIPTION OF MANUSCRIPTS, AND INDIAN STUDIES FOR THREE YEARS.Chapter XXXVII · TO CHAMPA AND TAMALIPTI. STAY AND LABOURS THERE FOR THREE YEARS. TAKES SHIP TO SINGHALA, OR CEYLON.Chapter XXXVIII · AT CEYLON. RISE OF THE KINGDOM. FEATS OF BUDDHA. TOPES AND MONASTERIES. STATUE OF BUDDHA IN JADE. BO TREE. FESTIVAL OF BUDDHA’S TOOTH.Chapter XXXIX · CREMATION OF AN ARHAT. SERMON OF A DEVOTEE.Chapter XL · AFTER TWO YEARS TAKES SHIP FOR CHINA. DISASTROUS PASSAGE TO JAVA; AND THENCE TO CHINA; ARRIVES AT SHAN-TUNG; AND GOES TO NANKING. CONCLUSION OR L’ENVOI BY ANOTHER WRITER.Previous chapter ←Front matterNext chapter →PREFACEAll chapters and sections (44)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsA Record of Buddhistic KingdomsPREFACEINTRODUCTIONChapters12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940Being 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 DisciplineTranslated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese textBY JAMES LEGGE← Front matterPREFACE →