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The Congling Garrison葱嶺鎮
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 Congling garrison
又從胡蜜國東行十五日。過播蜜川。即至葱嶺鎮。此即屬漢。兵馬見今鎮押。此即舊日王裴星國境。為王背叛。走投土蕃。然今國界無有百姓。外國人呼云渴飯檀國。漢名葱嶺
Again from the country of Homil I went east for fifteen days, and passing the river of Pamil (播蜜川) I reached the Congling garrison (葱嶺鎮). This place belongs to Han, and troops are garrisoned there now. This was the border of the country of King Baeseong (裴星) in former days, but the king rebelled and fled to Tobeon (土蕃), that is Tibet and gave himself over. So now there are no people within the borders of the country. Men of other countries call it the country of Galbandan (渴飯檀國), and its Han name is Congling.