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In the year 399 AD, a Chinese Buddhist Scholar monk named Fa-Hien embarked on a heroic odyssey, on foot, from China to Sri Lanka crossing the great Gobi desert. Fa-Hien writes: "There is not a bird to be seen in the air above, nor an animal on the ground below." It was an overland travel of supreme scale of courage and endurance until Khotan, an oasis to the North of Kashmir was arrived at. At Khotan, Fa-Hien was to quench his thirst, physical to the content of his heart and spiritual to a certain stage: Khotan was home to monasteries inhabited by scholars of Theravada (Hinayana) Buddhism.

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"May I be reborn in Lanka to continue the struggle for freedom (of Sinhalese from the British)"

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We see that several of the lands which we have named include numerous large kingdoms, and they cannot fail to have a reputation for great wealth. What then should we say about an Island, the greatest length of which is not more than seventy two leagues [3], and which produces the five commodities we have described, in such store?

6 STAR Jun 19 - 25, 2011 Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka SriLankan Airlines Pro $145,000

"None of us know this wave at Arugam Bay, but we've heard it's a great high performance set-up so it's exciting to be heading to a new location and I'm very grateful to accept a wild card into this event.
Julian Wilson (Australia)

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