Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s4.t5.6

v2.c14.s4.t5.6

In the Chuigong first year of Tang (685 CE), Yi Jing left the Nalanda Monastery and started his journey back to China. He boarded a ship in Tamralipta (in present-day West Bengal) with more than 400 Tripitakas in Sanskrit. During the Tianshou second year, Yi Jing finished the books of *Records of Eminent Monks of Tang Learning Buddhism Doctrines in Western Regions* and *The Great Tang Record of Buddhist Practices Sent Home from the Southern Sea* and so on. On May 15ᵗʰ of lunar calendar, he sent Dajin back to Tang with two books and another 10 volumes of newly translated Buddhism scriptures and he also requested the imperial court to build a temple in the west.