Publisher's Synopsis
Fâ-hien had been living in Ch?ang-gan. Deploring the mutilated and imperfect state of the collection of the Books of Discipline, in the second year of the period Hwang-che, being the Ke-hâe year of the cycle, he entered into an engagement with Hwuy-king, Tâo-ching, Hwuy-ying, and Hwuy-wei, that they should go to India and seek for the Disciplinary Rules. After starting from Ch?ang-gan, they passed through Lung, and came to the kingdom of K?een-kwei, where they stopped for the summer retreat. When that was over, they went forward to the kingdom of Now-t?an, crossed the mountain of Yang-low, and reached the emporium of Chang-yih. There they found the country so much disturbed that travelling on the roads was impossible for them. Its king, however, was very attentive to them, kept them, and acted the part of their dânapati. Here they met with Che-yen, Hwuy-keen, Sang-shâo, Pâo-yun, and Sang-king; and in pleasant association with them, as bound on the same journey with themselves, they passed the summer retreat together, resuming after it their travelling, and going on to T?un-hwang, in the frontier territory of defence extending for about 80 le from east to west, and about 40 from north to south.
