Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wang ocheonchukguk jeon (pinyin: wang wu tianzhu guo chuan; "An account of travel to the five Indian kingdoms"") is a travelogue by Buddhist monk Hyecho, who traveled from Korea to India, in the years 723 - 727/728 CE.Written in Classical Chinese, the lingua franca of East Asia at the time, the work was long thought to be lost. However, a manuscript turned up among the Dunhuang manuscripts during the early 20th century. It was, bought by the French explorer and archaeologist Paul Pelliot in 1908, and is now owned by the National Library of France.The manuscript scroll contains 5,893 classical Chinese characters in 227 lines and is slightly damaged on the front and back. It is 28.5 centimeters in width and 358.6 centimeters in length and is the first overseas travelogue written by a Korean and contains information about the political, cultural and economic customs of India and central Asia at that time. The five Indian kingdoms in the work refer to West, East, North, South and Central India, but it also contains information about the Byzantine Empire (Greater Fu-lin), the Arabs, Persia and several Central Asian states.

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