Region: South Asia · Coordinates: 8.312, 80.413 · 5 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 411 | Faxian, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms | Above the footprint, a 400-chi stupa and the Abhayagiri monastery: 5,000 monks, and a blue jade Buddha image over 20 chi tall, holding a jewel in its right hand. Seeing a white silk fan offered by a merchant, Faxian weeps, moved by thoughts of home |
| AD 411 | Faxian, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms | A branch of the Bodhi tree (pippala), brought by an old king from Middle India, grew to 200 chi beside the Buddha hall. When it leaned, they propped it with a pillar; it pierced the pillar and rooted in the ground. There are monasteries under the tree and a Tooth-relic monastery |
| AD 412 | Faxian, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms | The Tooth festival in the middle of the third month: ten days before, the king adorns an elephant and proclaims it; 500 Jātaka scenes of the bodhisattva are set out along both sides of the road; the tooth relic is then enshrined at Abhayagiri and honored for 90 days |
| AD 412 | Faxian, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms | Seven li south of the city, the Mahāvihāra (Great Monastery): the funeral of an arhat shramana. The king cremates him in the arhat manner, and later plows the site of a new monastery, permanently donating land, people and houses to the Sangha |
| AD 412 | Faxian, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms | Staying two years in the land of the lions, he obtains the Mahīśāsaka Vinaya, the Dīrghāgama, the Saṃyuktāgama and miscellaneous collections: Sanskrit texts that were not in the land of Han |