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The Four Garrisons of Anxi安西四鎮

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) · 2 passages · 24 Chinese characters · reading time 0.1 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 Four Garrisons of Anxi

□□□□□此即安西四鎮名□。

□□□□□ These then are the names of the Four Garrisons of Anxi (安西四鎮) □.

2The names of the four garrisons

一安西二于闐三疎勒四烏耆〈下缺〉

The first is Anxi, the second Khotan, the third Kashgar, the fourth Karashahr 〈The text breaks off here. What followed has not survived.〉