釋迦方志 1.65

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the country of Kulūta (in North India), surrounded on all four sides by mountains. The capital city is fourteen to fifteen li in circumference. There are more than twenty monasteries and over a thousand monks, mostly studying the Mahāyāna. There are fifteen deva temples, where tīrthikas live intermingled. It produces fire pearls and rain-stone. The common people have goiters and swellings. Within the city is a stupa marking where the Buddha once traveled and preached the Dharma. Traveling north from here for nearly two thousand li along perilous mountain roads, one reaches the country of Lāhul (in North India). Traveling north through the mountains for another two thousand li, where the snow and cold are even more severe, one reaches the country of Ladak (also named Sanpoha, included in North India). Traveling south from Kulūta for more than seven hundred li, crossing mountains and fording rivers, one reaches