PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
THE TRAVELS OF FA-HIEN or RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS
CHAPTER I FROM CH'ANG-GAN TO THE SANDY DESERT
CHAPTER II ON TO SHEN-SHEN AND THENCE TO KHOTEN
CHAPTER III KHOTEN. PROCESSIONS OF IMAGES. THE KING'S NEW MONASTERY.
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI ON TOWARDS NORTH INDIA. DARADA. IMAGE OF MAITREYA BODHISATTVA.
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII WOO-CHANG, OR UDYANA. MONASTERIES, AND THEIR WAYS. TRACES OF BUDDHA.
CHAPTER IX SOO-HO-TO. LEGEND OF BUDDHA.
CHAPTER X GANDHARA. LEGENDS OF BUDDHA.
CHAPTER XI TAKSHASILA. LEGENDS. THE FOUR GREAT TOPES.
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII NAGARA. FESTIVAL OF BUDDHA'S SKULL-BONE. OTHER RELICS, AND HIS SHADOW.
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV BHIDA. SYMPATHY OF MONKS WITH THE PILGRIMS.
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII KANYAKUBJA, OR CANOUGE. BUDDHA'S PREACHING.
CHAPTER XIX SHA-CHE. LEGEND OF BUDDHA'S DANTA-KASHTHA.
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI THE THREE PREDECESSORS OF SAKYAMUNI IN THE BUDDHASHIP.
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII RAMA, AND ITS TOPE.
CHAPTER XXIV WHERE BUDDHA FINALLY RENOUNCED THE WORLD, AND WHERE HE DIED.
CHAPTER XXV VAISALI. THE TOPE CALLED "WEAPONS LAID DOWN." THE COUNCIL OF VAISALI.
CHAPTER XXVI REMARKABLE DEATH OF ANANDA.
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII RAJAGRIHA, NEW AND OLD. LEGENDS AND INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH IT.
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI GAYA. SAKYAMUNI'S ATTAINING TO THE BUDDHASHIP; AND OTHER LEGENDS.
CHAPTER XXXII LEGEND OF KING ASOKA IN A FORMER BIRTH, AND HIS NARAKA.
CHAPTER XXXIII MOUNT GURUPADA, WHERE KASYAPA BUDDHA'S ENTIRE SKELETON IS.
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV DAKSHINA, AND THE PIGEON MONASTERY.
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX CREMATION OF AN ARHAT. SERMON OF A DEVOTEE.
CHAPTER XL
A RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS
Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hsien
of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414)
in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text
BY JAMES LEGGE
