A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

en,(1) a country rugged and hilly, with a thin and barren soil. The clothes of the common people are coarse, and like those worn

stayed for about a month, and then proceeded on their journey, fifteen days walking to the north-west bringing them to the country of Woo-e.(8) In this also there were more than four thousand monks, all students of the hinayana. They were very strict in their rules, so that sramans from the territory of Ts'in(9) were all unprepared for their regulations. Fa-Hsien, through the management of Foo Kung-sun, maitre d'hotellerie,(10) was able to remain (with his company in the monastery where they were received) for more than two months, and here they were rejoined by Pao-yun and his friends.(11) (At the end of that time) the people of Woo-e neglected t

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of the kingdom of Shen

dynasty, down to its

The greater portion of

in a translation by Mr

cal Institute," Aug

ay not be able to id

sufficient indication

as being south of and

hibition of those indic

ficient for us to kno

r Lop Nor, into which

ed its distance to be 1

ust have gone more than

the journey in

hich Fa-Hsien always u

ountry, as a whole, ca

it, first and last, fo

y, as we shall immedia

in or Ch'in," but int

ng its capital, as des

chapter, i

nslate the character {

hristianity, beyond

believers, I object t

calling themselves or

me inapplicable to the

edges no God in the un

sacrifice or prayer i

of "monks" is caused

since the middle of t

hibition against marr

ohibitions in diet and

sangha, constituted b

confession, to grant

, &c.; secondly, the t

deification of the c

he name is used by ou

dually as belonging to

s with the name sramana

our at

ll vehicle, or conve

r "three different mean

amsara, or sea of trans

the term was used to

through which the Budd

ana, and madhyamayana.

vation, corresponding t

Characteristics of it

, and the absence of sp

H., pp. 151-

is here the same as i

een-chuh ({.} {.}), the

time as tuk. How the e

de, came to be chang

ace to explain. I beli

ive a good auspicious n

it "the Heavenly Tuk,"

nly region" ({.} {.}),

ed "the Celest

ish take the place of

the name for Buddhist

rom (left) their famil

on of desire and lust.

scetics of all denomina

of Buddhistic monks.

ar or Mo

n identified. Watters

be far wrong if we pla

a." It must have been a

e so many m

sense China, but Fa-Hs

ng of the three Ts'in

ote; perhaps only of t

had himse

together is difficult

Review," was the first

bliged to adopt the re

ad of the {.} {.} in th

rson is spoken of as a

s a few sentences farth

diately follows the su

is office, correspondi

tellerie in a Roman Ca

kind help of such an of

ddhistic name for him i

is surname indicates th

old times of the Chow

ch had the surname of

er can be satisfactor

d to call themselves K

in the memory of the

ad left behind t

he Ouighurs, the dist

n or

known as Khoten. Dr. P.

of it:-"A large dist

embracing all the cou

thern base of the Kwun

ast to west. The town

extensive plain on th

5s E. After the Tungan

he Mufti Haji Habeebool

ffice till he was murd

conqueror of all Chi

cotton stuffs, jade or

e in Sanskrit is Kus