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Front Cover......Page 1 Back Cover Introduction......Page 2 Front Page......Page 4 Publishers Info......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 10 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 15 Note on the sketch-map......Page 16 I. Dream of Buddha's mother of his incarnation......Page 83 II. Buddha just born, with the Nagas supplying water to wash him......Page 87 III. Buddha tossing the white elephant over the wall......Page 86 IV. Buddha in solitude and enduring austerities......Page 114 V. Buddhaship attained......Page 115 VI. The devas celebrating the attainment of the Buddhaship......Page 17 VII. Buddha's dying instructions......Page 92 VIII. Buddha's death......Page 93 IX. Division of Buddha's relics......Page 94 Life of FA-hien; genuineness and integrity of the text of his narrative; number of the adherents of Buddhism......Page 18 I. From Ch'ang-gan to the Sandy Desert......Page 26 II. On to Shen-shen and thence to Khoten......Page 29 III. Khoten. Processions of images. The king's New Monastery......Page 33 IV. Through the Ts'ung or 'Onion' mountains to K'eeh-ch'A; probably Skardo, or some city more to the East in Ladak......Page 38 V. Great quinquennial assembly of monks. Relic

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Author

Fa-Hien - Legge, James (trans.)

Publisher

Dover Publications, New York

Published

1965

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486213446

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Biography, Memoir, Political