Sacred Buddha Tooth Relics and Relics in the World
Famous Chinese Monks Who Viewed The Buddha Tooth
Sacred Buddha Tooth Relics in the World
Other Sacred Relics of the Buddha in the World
Fa Xian (399 - 414 AD)
Faxian (traditional Chinese: 法顯; simplified Chinese: 法显; pinyin: Fǎxiǎn; also romanized as Fa-Hien, Fa-hsien, Fa Xian, et al.) (337 - c. 422 CE) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to India, Sri Lanka and Kapilavastu in today's Nepal between 399 and 412 to acquire Buddhist scriptures. His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Xian of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline.
KIE-SHA (KASHGAR) V
"there is also a tooth of buddha, for which the people have reared a tope, connected with which there are more than a thousand monks and their disciples,"
NA-KIE (NAGARAHARA) XIII
"he came to the city He-lo in the borders of the country of Nagara, where there is the flat-bone of Buddha's skull, deposited in a vihara(3) adorned all over with gold-leaf and the seven sacred substances."
"In the midst of the city there is also the tope of Buddha's tooth, where offerings are made in the same way as to the flat-bone of his skull."
RAMAGAMA XXIII
"there is a kingdom called Rama. The king of this country, having obtained one portion of the relics of Buddha's body, returned with it and built over it a tope, named the Rama tope."
SIMHALA (CEYLON) XXXVIII
"In the city there has been reared also the vihara of Buddha's tooth, on which, as well as on the other, the seven precious substances have been employed."
"The tooth of Buddha is always brought forth in the middle of the third month."
Bibliography:
- A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hein of travels in India and Ceylon (AD 399 – 414) in search of the Buddhist books of Discipline, translated by James Legge, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1998, ISBN 81-215-0516-X
- Buddhist Records of the Western World, Xuan Zang, translated by Samuel Beal, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd, 2004, ISBN 81-215-0741-3, page XXIII