Yetgeul › Wang Ocheonchukguk Jeon (Memoir of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India) › Complete in one volume
Closing Fragment卷尾殘簡
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 closing fragment
〈上缺〉依漢法裹頭著裙〈下缺〉。
〈The text begins here. What came before has not survived.〉 They bind up their heads and wear skirts, after the manner of Han 〈The text breaks off here. What followed has not survived.〉