ChinaA Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
佛國記 (Foguoji)
Faxian · AD 416 · Jiankang (China) · other
A Buddhist monk who walked to India and sailed home by way of Sri Lanka writes up fifteen years of travel not as adventure but as testimony, recording which scriptures and relics he found and where the faith was already fading.
Descends from
- Sutra in Forty-two Chapters · traditional legend dates the translation to AD 67 at Luoyang under Emperor Ming; most modern scholars regard the received text as a later Chinese compilation or digest, assembled anywhere from the 2nd to the 4th century AD, rather than a single translation event
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