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The Country of Lampa覽波國
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 country of Lampa
又從此建馱羅國。西行入山七日。至覽波國。此國無王。有大首領。亦屬建馱羅國所管。衣著言音。與建馱羅國相似。亦有寺有僧。敬信三寶。行大乘法
Again from this country of Gandhara I went west into the mountains for seven days and reached the country of Lampa (覽波國). This country has no king but a great chief, and it belongs under the rule of the country of Gandhara. The dress and the speech are like those of the country of Gandhara. Here too there are monasteries and there are monks, and they revere and believe in the Three Jewels and practise the Law of the Great Vehicle.