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Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist pilgrims from China to India (400 A.D. and 518 A.D.)

by: Faxian, approximately 337-approximately 422

Publication date: 1993

Topics: History, Asian Educational Services, Sung, Yün, active 6th century, Huisheng, active 6th century, Buddhism -- China, Buddhism, Travel -- history, Travel, India -- Description and travel, China, India

Publisher: New Delhi : Asian Education Services

Collection: IndiaHistory; JaiGyan

Contributor: Public Resource

Language: English

lxxiii, 208 pages : 19 cm

Originally published: London : Trübner, 1869

Preface.--Introduction.--Records of Buddhist countries by Chi Fah Hian of the Sung dynasty. (Date 400 A.D.)--The mission of Hwui Seng and Sung Yun to obtain Buddhist books in the West. (518 A.D.) [by Xuanzhi Yang] Translated from the 5th section of the History of the temples of Lo-Yang (Honan Fu)

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