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RECORD
OF THE
BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS
CHAPTER I.
Formerly, when Fa Hsien was at Ch'ang-an,[1] he was distressed at the imperfect state of the Disciplines;[2] and, subsequently, in the second year of Hung Shih, the Chihai[3] of the cycle, he agreed with Hui Ching, Tao Chêng, Hui Ying, Hui Wei and others to go to India and try to obtain these Disciplines. They started from Ch'ang-an, crossed the Lung (mountains), and arrived at the country of Ch'ien Kuei[4] where they spent the rainy season.
The rainy season over they went on to the country of Nou
CНАРТЕR I.
- ↑ Now Hsi-an Fu 西安府, the capital of Shan-hsi 山西.
- ↑ One of the three classes into which the Sacred Books of Buddhism are divided:—(1) 經 ching, aphorisms (of Buddha himself); (2) 律 lü, disciplines; and (3) 論 lun, discourses (on theology, metaphysics etc).
- ↑ 己亥, or A.D. 399.
- ↑ 亁歸,the name of a prince. Mr. Beal writes these two characters Kon Kwei. 耨檀 Nou t'an in the next sentence is also the name of a prince.
