On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c22.17

v2.c22.17

In the passage now under notice we are told that the *Lêng-ka-ching* or Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra was delivered on the Laṅkā mountain in Sêng-ka-lo, whereas this sūtra professes, as we have seen, to have been uttered in the city of Laṅkā on the Malaya mountain. We do not seem to know anything about the Cocoa-nut Island, and the isle with the great image of Buddha having a candrakānta on the top of its head, and the Great Precious-substances Island, except from the mention of this passage. Our pilgrim evidently derived all his information about them, as about Ceylon, from books, and the stories of the Brethren from Ceylon whom he met in Draviḍa and the Brethren of the latter country.