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Damasammana Monastery多摩三磨娜寺

Wang Ocheonchukguk Jeon (Memoir of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India) 往五天竺國傳 · Hyecho · 727 (Silla, 26th year of King Seongdeok) · 1 passages · 110 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min

Wang Ocheonchukguk Jeon (Memoir of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India) Complete in one volume The travel record of Hyecho, a monk of Silla, who at about twenty walked forty countries of India and the Western Regions and set down what he saw. It was lost for more than a thousand years and was found again in 1908 in the caves of Dunhuang, as a damaged scroll. Five poems in five-word lines, longing for home, are carried in it.

1The stupa that holds the Buddha's hair

又從北天國有一寺。名多摩三磨娜。佛在之日。來此說法。廣度人天。此寺東澗裏。於泉水邊有一塔。而佛所剃頭及剪爪甲。在此塔中。此見有三百餘僧。寺有大辟支佛牙及骨舍利等。更有七八所寺。各五六百人。大好住持。王及百姓等。非常敬信。

Again, in the country of North India there is a monastery named Damasammana (多摩三磨娜). In the days when the Buddha was alive he came to this place and preached the Law, and delivered men and gods far and wide.

In the valley east of this monastery, beside a spring, there is a stupa, and in this stupa are the hair the Buddha shaved and the nails he cut. There are more than three hundred monks here now, and the monastery holds the tooth of a great pratyekabuddha (辟支佛) and relics of his bones and the like.

Besides these there are seven or eight monasteries, each with five or six hundred men, and their practice is very good. The king and the people revere and believe them greatly.

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