decided to stay in India. Impressions of India Struggles at sea during the return journey through Java Works Translations French . English James Legge (1886, trans.), A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fâ-hien of His Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, Asian Educational Services, 1993; Herbert A. Giles (1877, trans.), Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms: Translated From the Chinese, Cornell University Library (June 25, 2009); See also Sects of Buddhism Silk Road transmission of Buddhism Chinese Buddhism Xuanzang Yijing (monk) Song Yun Hyecho Fa Hien Cave Great Tang Records on the Western Regions A Record of Buddhist Practices Sent Home from the Southern Sea Wang ocheonchukguk jeon Journey to the West References Bibliography Beal, Samuel. 1884. Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Hiuen Tsiang. 2 vols. Translated by Samuel Beal. London. 1884. Reprint: Delhi. Oriental Books Reprint Corporation. 1969. (Also contains a translation of Faxian's book on pp. xxiii–lxxxiii). Volume 1 ; Volume 2. Hodge, Stephen (2009 & 2012), "The Textual Transmission of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana-sutra", lecture at the University of Hamburg Legge, James 1886. A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399–414) in search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline . Oxford, Clarendon Press. Reprint: New York, Paragon Book Reprint Corp. 1965. Rongxi, Li; Dalia, Albert A. (2002). The Lives of Great Monks and Nuns, Berkeley, Calif.: Numata Center for Translation and Research Sen, T. (2006). "The Travel Records of Chinese Pilgrims Faxian, Xuanzang, and Yijing", Education About Asia 11 (3), 24–33 Weerawardane, Prasani (2009). "Journey to the West: Dusty Roads, Stormy Seas and Transcendence", Biblioasia 5 (2), 14–18 Jain, Sandhya, & Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. External links Faxian and other Chinese pilgrims, Columbia University Archives Original Chinese text, Taisho 2085 Legge's translation with original Chinese text, T 2085 Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms , University of Adelaide Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (Complete HTML at web.archive.org), University of Adelaide Chinese explorers Chinese scholars of Buddhism Sanskrit–Chinese translators Jin dynasty (266–420) Buddhists Liu Song Buddhist monks Pilgrimage accounts 337 births Chinese travel writers Historiography of India Explorers of India 422 deaths Later Zhao Buddhist monks Jin dynasty (266–420) translators Liu Song translators People from Changzhi Writers from Shanxi Later Qin Buddhist