A record of Buddhistic kingdoms
Subtitle: being an account of the Chinese monk Fâ-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline
By: translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text by James Legge.
Contributors: Legge, James.
Publisher: Clarendon
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: PREFACE xi; title: INTRODUCTION.; title: Life of FA-hien; genuineness and integrity of the text of his narrative; number of the adherents of Buddhism . . . i; title: CHAPTER I.; title: From Ch'ang-gan to the Sandy Desert . . . 9; title: CHAPTER II.; title: On to Shen-shen and thence to Khoten . . . 12; title: CHAPTER III.; title: Khoten. Processions of images. The king's New monastery . . . 16; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Through the Ts'ung or 'Onion' mountains to K'eeh-ch'A ; probably Skardo, or some city more to the East in Ladak . . . 21; title: CHAPTER V.; title: Great quinquennial assembly of monks. Relics of Buddha. Productions Of The Country . . . 22; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: On towards North India. D arada. I mage of M aitreya Bodhisattva . . . 24; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: Crossing of the Indus. When Buddhism first crossed that river for the East . . . 26; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: Woo-Chang, Or Udyana. Monasteries And Their Ways. Traces Of Buddha . . . 28; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: Soo-Ho-To. Legend Of Buddha . . . 30; title: CHAPTER X.; title: Gandhara. Legends of Buddha . . . 31; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: Takshasila. Legends. The four great topes . . . 32; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: Purushapura, or Peshawur. Prophecy about king Kanishka and his tope. Buddha's alms-bowl. Death of Hwuy-ying . . . 33; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: Nagara. Festival of Buddha's skull-bone. Other relics, and his shadow . . . 36; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: Death of Hwuy-king in the Little Snowy mountains. Lo-E. Pohna. Crossing the Indus to the East . . . 40; title: CHAPTER XV.; title: Bhida. Sympathy of monks with the pilgrims . . . 41; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: On to Mathura, or Muttra. Condition and customs of Central India ; of the monks, viharas, and monasteries . . . 42; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: Sankasya. Buddha's ascent to and descent from the Trayastrimsas heaven, and other legends . . . 47; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: Kanyakubja, or Canouge. Buddha's preaching . . . 53; title: CHAPTER XIX.; title: Sha-che. Legend of Buddha's Danta-kashtha . . . 54; title: CHAPTER XX.; title: Kosala And Sravasti. The Jetavana Vihara And Other Memorials And Legends Of Buddha. Sympathy Of The Monks With The Pilgrims . . . 55; title: CHAPTER XXI.; title: The Three Predecessors Of Sakyamuni In The Buddhaship . . . 63; title: CHAPTER XXII.; title: Kapilavastu. Its desolation. Legends of Buddha's birth, and other incidents in connexion with it . . . 64; title: CHAPTER XXIII.; title: Rama, and its tope . . . 68; title: CHAPTER XXIV.; title: Where Buddha finally renounced the world, and where he died . . . 70; title: CHAPTER XXV.; title: Vaisali. The tope called 'Weapons laid down.' The Council of Vaisali . . . 72; title: CHAPTER XXVI.; title: Remarkable death of Ananda . . . 75; title: CHAPTER XXVII.; title: Pataliputtra, or Patna, in Magadha. King Asoka's spirit-built palace and halls. The Buddhist Brahman, Radhasami. Dispensaries And Hospitals . . . 77; title: CHAPTER XXVIII.; title: Rajagriha, New and Old. Legends and incidents connected with it . . . 80; title: CHAPTER XXIX.; title: Gridhra-kuta hill, and legends. FA-hien passes a night on it. His reflections . . . 82; title: CHAPTER XXX.; title: The Srataparna cave, or cave of the First Council. Legends. Suicide of a Bhikshu . . . 84; title: CHAPTER XXXI.; title: Gaya. Sakyamuni's attaining to the Buddhaship ; and other legends . . . 87; title: CHAPTER XXXII.; title: Legend of king Asoka in a former birth, and his naraka . . . 90; title: CHAPTER XXXIII.; title: Mount Gurupada, where Ka§yapa Buddha's entire skeleton is . . . 92; title: CHAPTER XXXIV.; title: On the way back to Patna. Varanasi, or Benares. Sakyamuni's first doings after becoming Buddha . . . 93; title: CHAPTER XXXV.; title: Dakshina, and the pigeon monastery . . . 96; title: CHAPTER XXXVI.; title: In Patna. FA-hien's labours in transcription of manuscripts, and Indian studies for three years . . . 98; title: CHAPTER XXXVII.; title: To Champa and Tamalipti. Stay and labours there for three years. Takes ship to Singhala, or Ceylon . . . 100; title: CHAPTER XXXVIII.; title: At Ceylon. Rise of the kingdom. Feats of Buddha. Topes and monasteries. Statue of Buddha in jade. Bo tree. Festival of Buddha's tooth . . . 101; title: CHAPTER XXXIX.; title: Cremation of an Arhat. Sermon of a devotee . . . 107; title: CHAPTER XL.; title: 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 . . . 111; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, &c.; title: Sketch map of FA-hien's travels . . . To face Introduction, page i; title: I.; title: Dream of Buddha's mother of his incarnation . . . To face p. 65; title: II.; title: Buddha just born, with the nAgas supplying water to wash him . . . To face p. 67; title: Buddha tossing the white elephant over the wall . . . To face p. 66; title: IV.; title: Buddha in solitude and enduring austerities . . . To face p. 87; title: V.; title: Buddhaship Attained . . . To face p. 88; title: VI.; title: The devas celebrating the attainment of the Buddhaship . . . To face the Title; title: VII.; title: Buddha's dying instructions . . . To face p. 70; title: VIII.; title: Buddha's death . . . To follow VII; title: IX.; title: Division of Buddha's relics . . . To follow VIII