Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
by Fa-Hien
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
PREFACE
Several times during my long residence in Hong Kong I endeavoured to read through the "Narrative of Fa-hien;" but though interested with the graphic details of much of the work, its colum ...