A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

scipline, in the second year of the period Hwang-che, being the Ke-hae year of the cycle,(2) he entered into an engagement

hey went forward to the kingdom of Now-t'an,(8) crossed the mountain of Yang-low, and reached the emporium of Chang-yih.(9) There they found the country so much disturbed

er, resuming after it their travelling, and going on to T'un-hwang,(13) (the chief town) in the frontier territory of defence extending for about 80 le from east to west, and about 40 from north to south. Their company,

avellers) who encounter them perish all to a man. There is not a bird to be seen in the air above, nor an animal on the ground below. Though you look all round most

O

l the name of the prin

t of Se-gan, Shen-se.

Han (B.C. 202-A.D. 24),

618). The empire of th

sien lived, had its cap

he capital of the pr

, with many other min

sin, their rulers some

of e

che embraced from A.D

he reign of Yao Hing

dopted Hwang-che for

cal name of that year

distance of time to e

came to say that Ke-ha

st reasonable to suppos

, the cycle name of wh

ad of {.}, the first,

rs of Eminent Monks" it

ar of the period Lung-g

was A.

n itself, are all what

given to the parties

taka or canon consists

g to Eitel (p. 150),

rting to be from Budd

on metaphysics:"-cal

, king {.}, leuh {.},

iscussions. Dr. Rhys

ysics" as used of the

more the relation to

hat which 'metaphysic

49). However this be,

s chiefly concerned. H

rnment of "the Order"

al rel

western part of Shen-s

remains in Lung Chow,

en

second king of "the Wes

barous origin, from th

K'eih-fuh. The first

t from the sovereign of

d in 388 by his brother

sperous in 398, and to

ind him at his capital,

of Lan-ch

ashavasana (Pali, vass

-"One of the most an

equiring all ecclesias

in devotional exerci

he hot season for the r

e 15th of the 9t

d period of the Tsin d

ignties in the western

emains in the departme

uh. The "southern Lean

succeeded in 399 by a b

, the Now-t'an of the t

Fa-Hsien and his frien

as being so may be a

it is not nec

the name of a district

way north and west fro

s king at this time was

rthern

for religious charit

attaining to nirvana;

thereby crosses {.} t

f honour to all who

arity, especially to f

s;"-see Ei

ims with their cler

yun, who translated va

of which only one seems

io's Catalogue of the

d summer since the pilg

fore, probabl

39d 40s N.; lon. 94d 5

icts constituting the d

fectures of Kan-suh; be

reat

s, and where he was go

dmit of any oth

ive of Lung-se, a man

ent. He was appointed

of "the northern Lean

ming by and by "duke of

in

d;" the great desert o

t was a great task whi

his desert. The name of

and he thinks of cros

d to traverse it from

Names," p. 23, Dr. P

rn frontier of Mongoli

urkestan, to within s

It thus comprises so

h, and from three to

t 2,100 miles in its g

Some idea may be form

,' with its vast billow

end that in one of the

space of twenty-four h

e Mongols