 | Faxian - Asia - 1886 - 246 pages
...monastery, called the Abhayagiri 3, where there are (now) five thousand monks. There is in it a hall of Buddha, adorned with carved and inlaid work of...substances, in which there is an image (of Buddha) in green jade, more than twenty cubits in height, glittering all over with those substances, and having an appearance... | |
 | Geraldine Edith Mitton - Extinct cities - 1917 - 318 pages
...further built a monastery called the Abhayagiri, where there are now 5,000 monks. There is in it a hall of Buddha adorned with carved and inlaid work of gold...substances, in which there is an image (of Buddha) in green jade, more than 20 cubits in height and glittering all over and having an appearance of solemn dignity... | |
 | Anuradha Seneviratna, Benjamin Polk - Architecture - 1992 - 168 pages
...Abhayagiri Dagoba and the monastery where there are now five thousand monks. There is in it a hall of the Buddha, adorned with carved and inlaid work of gold...silver, and rich in the seven precious substances... an image (of the Buddha) in green jade more than twenty cubits high... the dwellings of the merchants... | |
 | James Legge, Faxian - Religion - 2005 - 193 pages
...monastery, called the Abhayagiri *, where there are (now) five thousand monks. There is in it a hall of Buddha, adorned with carved and inlaid work of gold and silver, and rich in the seven preck-as substances, in which there is an image (of Buddha) in green jade, more than twenty cubits... | |
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Abhayagiri 3, where there are (now) five thousand monks. There is in it a hall of Buddha, adorned with carved and inlaid work of gold and silver, and rich in the seven precious substances, in which there is an image (of Buddha) in green jade, more than... 