Earl Hardie Karges
My Travels with Fa Hien, 5th Century Buddhist Pilgrim
Books by Hardie Karges
This is the story of Fa Hien, 5th century Buddhist pilgrim, who, in the year 399CE, set out walking from his home in Chang'an (Xi'an), China, toward his final destination near Pataliputra (Patna), India, via Purushapura (Peshawar), now in Pakistan. He made this trip to retrieve and translate original texts to clarify the practice of Buddhism in China, which was then almost a thousand years and five thousand miles from its source. Those are the facts. But this
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