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PersonAD 704 – AD 787

Hyecho

Silla monk who sailed to India, travelled the five regions of India and Central Asia and wrote the Wang ocheonchukguk jeon

After going to Tang, he set out for India around 723, visited the sites of the Buddha’s life, gathered news of Persia and the Arab lands, and returned through Central Asia to the Tang Protectorate of Anxi (Kucha) in 727. His Wang ocheonchukguk jeon is a precious record of religion, customs and politics in eighth-century India and Central Asia. In 1908 the French scholar Pelliot found a manuscript, missing its beginning and end, in the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang; it is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Hyecho later lived in Tang translating esoteric Buddhist scriptures.

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    AD 723 – AD 727Hyecho’s Pilgrimage to the Five Indian Kingdomsauthor

    The Silla monk Hyecho sailed to India, toured the five Indian kingdoms and Central Asia, and returned to Tang to write the Wang ocheonchukguk jeon.

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