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Foguo Ji (A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms)佛國記
The record of fifteen years in which Faxian, a monk of sixty-five, left Chang'an to seek the rules of discipline, crossed the desert and the Congling mountains as far as India, and came home by sea by way of Sri Lanka. Thirty countries in all. In an age when Korea, China and Japan were writing of one another, this is the earliest travel account left by a man of East Asia who saw India with his own eyes.
20 entries and 152 paragraphs fully translated. The original has no chapter divisions, so it is divided by the stages of the journey. Faxian's one note of his own is given as a note.
Complete in one volume
- The Return by Sea11 passages · 1,189 Chinese characters
- The Procession of the Buddha's Tooth7 passages · 1,155 Chinese characters
- Reaching Sri Lanka10 passages · 715 Chinese characters
- Turning Back Alone5 passages · 402 Chinese characters
- The Deer Park and the Countries to the South5 passages · 726 Chinese characters
- Gaya, the Land of Enlightenment7 passages · 1,282 Chinese characters
- Rajagriha and Mount Gridhrakuta8 passages · 855 Chinese characters
- Pataliputra, King Ashoka's Capital7 passages · 737 Chinese characters
- Kushinagar, the Land of Nirvana7 passages · 850 Chinese characters
- Kapilavastu, the Buddha's Birthplace10 passages · 773 Chinese characters
- Shravasti and the Jetavana Monastery13 passages · 1,204 Chinese characters
- From Jiraoyi to Shaqi5 passages · 179 Chinese characters
- The Country of Sengjiashi6 passages · 933 Chinese characters
- Over the Little Snowy Mountains into Central India10 passages · 940 Chinese characters
- The Buddha's Skull Bone in Najie4 passages · 567 Chinese characters
- Jiantuowei and the Buddha's Alms Bowl5 passages · 628 Chinese characters
- Wuchang in North India5 passages · 388 Chinese characters
- Crossing the Congling Mountains11 passages · 641 Chinese characters
- The Image Procession of Yutian6 passages · 519 Chinese characters
- Leaving Chang'an and Crossing the Desert10 passages · 487 Chinese characters