{"product_id":"2940015937909","title":"A RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS","description":"THE TRAVELS OF FA-HIEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eor RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFROM CH'ANG-GAN TO THE SANDY DESERT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFa-Hsien had been living in Ch'ang-gan.(1) Deploring the mutilated and\u003cbr\u003eimperfect state of the collection of the Books of Discipline, in the\u003cbr\u003esecond year of the period Hwang-che, being the Ke-hae year of the\u003cbr\u003ecycle,(2) he entered into an engagement with Kwuy-king, Tao-ching,\u003cbr\u003eHwuy-ying, and Hwuy-wei,(3) that they should go to India and seek for\u003cbr\u003ethe Disciplinary Rules.(4)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter starting from Ch'ang-gan, they passed through Lung,(5) and came\u003cbr\u003eto the kingdom of K'een-kwei,(6) where they stopped for the summer\u003cbr\u003eretreat.(7) When that was over, they went forward to the kingdom\u003cbr\u003eof Now-t'an,(8) crossed the mountain of Yang-low, and reached the\u003cbr\u003eemporium of Chang-yih.(9) There they found the country so much\u003cbr\u003edisturbed that travelling on the roads was impossible for them. Its\u003cbr\u003eking, however, was very attentive to them, kept them (in his capital),\u003cbr\u003eand acted the part of their danapati.(10)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere they met with Che-yen, Hwuy-keen, Sang-shao, Pao-yun, and\u003cbr\u003eSang-king;(11) and in pleasant association with them, as bound on the\u003cbr\u003esame journey with themselves, they passed the summer retreat (of that\u003cbr\u003eyear)(12) together, resuming after it their travelling, and going\u003cbr\u003eon to T'un-hwang,(13) (the chief town) in the frontier territory of\u003cbr\u003edefence extending for about 80 le from east to west, and about 40 from\u003cbr\u003enorth to south. Their company, increased as it had been, halted there\u003cbr\u003efor some days more than a month, after which Fa-Hsien and his four\u003cbr\u003efriends started first in the suite of an envoy,(14) having separated\u003cbr\u003e(for a time) from Pao-yun and his associates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLe Hao,(15) the prefect of T'un-hwang, had supplied them with the\u003cbr\u003emeans of crossing the desert (before them), in which there are many\u003cbr\u003eevil demons and hot winds. (Travellers) who encounter them perish\u003cbr\u003eall to a man. There is not a bird to be seen in the air above, nor an\u003cbr\u003eanimal on the ground below. Though you look all round most earnestly\u003cbr\u003eto find where you can cross, you know not where to make your choice,\u003cbr\u003ethe only mark and indication being the dry bones of the dead (left\u003cbr\u003eupon the sand).(16)","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101155148016,"sku":"2940015937909","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015937909","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}