The Country of Jieluonasufalana羯羅拿蘇伐剌那國

The country of Jieluonasufalana is four thousand four or five hundred li around. The great capital city of the country is more than twenty li around. The people who live there are many and thriving, and their houses are rich and full. The land is low and damp, and they sow and reap in season. All kinds of flowers grow thick and lush, and rare fruits are planted in plenty. The climate is even and mild, and the customs are simple and harmonious. They love and honor learning and the arts, and they believe in the false and the true together. There are more than ten monasteries and more than two thousand monks, and they study and learn the Law of the Zhengliang school of the Lesser Vehicle. There are more than fifty temples of the gods, and followers of other ways are truly many. Apart from these there are three monasteries where they do not eat milk or curds, for they follow the teaching left by Tipodaduo.

Beside the great city there is the monastery of Luoduomozhi. Its courts and halls are open and wide, and its terraces and pavilions are lofty and steep. Those in the country of high ability and full learning, and those known for their clear minds, all gather within it. They warn one another and so make one another, and they cut and polish the Way and virtue.

At first, when this country did not yet believe in the Law of the Buddha, there was a follower of another way in South India who bound his belly with plates of copper and bore a bright torch on his head. He came into this city walking tall with a staff, and he struck the drum of debate and asked for a debate. Someone asked him, "What is the meaning of your head and your belly?" He said, "What I have learned is much and able, and I fear my belly will split. And I pity the many who are foolish and dark, and so I carry a light." Ten days passed and no one asked him anything. They asked after men of talent, but there was no such man. The king said, "Within all our borders can there be no one clear and wise? If a guest's challenge is not answered, it is a deep shame to the country. Search again and ask after those who live hidden away." Someone said, "In the great forest there is a strange man who calls himself a monk and makes hard study his work. He has lived hidden in a quiet place for a long time now. If he were not one who takes the Law for his body and accords with virtue, how could he be like this?" The king heard it and went himself to ask him. The monk answered, "I am a man of South India who came as a traveler and stopped here. My learning is shallow, and I fear I may cast away what I have heard. I take your coming purpose with respect and will not refuse again. But if I lose in the debate, I ask that you raise a monastery and gather monks and make the Law of the Buddha shine and be praised." The king said, "I hear you with respect, and I shall not dare to forget your virtue." The monk took the asking and went to the field of debate. The follower of the other way then recited the chief points of his school, more than thirty thousand words. Its meaning was far and its writing was brief, and it held names and forms within it and drew in all that is seen and heard as with a net. The monk heard it once and went through it all, and with no error in word or in meaning he took a few hundred words and set it out and undid it, and then he asked after the chief points of that school. The other man came to the end of his words and his reasoning bent, and he shut his mouth and could not answer. His name being broken, he bore his shame and withdrew. The king revered his virtue deeply and raised this monastery, and from that time forward the teaching of the Law was spread wide.

Not far from the side of the monastery there is a stupa raised by King Wuyou. Long ago the Tathagata spoke the Law here for seven days and opened a way and led them. The shrine beside it is the place where the four Buddhas of the past sat and walked, and their traces are left there. There are several stupas, and all are places where the Tathagata spoke the scriptures and the Law, and they were raised by King Wuyou.

From here one goes southwest more than seven hundred li and comes to the country of Wutu.