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BUDDHIST PILGRIMS FROM CHINA TO INDIA.
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7. A priest of the Mahayana school called Tang, or "the lamp" (dipa), went with his parents when young, to the land of D vårapati, and there became a priest. He afterwards retired with the Chinese envoy to the capital, and lived in the temple of Tse- yan, where Hiwen Thsang had resided. After- wards he went by the Southern Sea route to Ceylon, where he worshipped the tooth- and then proceeding through South India and cross- ing into Eastern India, arrived at Tamralipti. Being attacked by robbers at the mouth of the river, he barely escaped with his life; he resided at Tamralipti for 12 years; having perfected himself in the Sanskļit he then proceeded to Nalanda and Buddha Gaya, then to Vaisali and the Kusi country, and finally died at Kusinagara, in the Pari-Nirvana Temple.
8. Two priests of Kao-chang (Tarfan) going in company with a Chinese envoy through the Southern Seas, died on board ship. Their books (the Yoga Sastra and others) I-tsing remarks are still at Shi-li-fo-s hai.
9. Taoulin, a priest of King-chau (in Hu. peh) and the district Kiang-ling, whose Sanskrit name was Silaprabha, embarked in a foreign ship (Hajik - Tajik), and passing through the copper-pillars" stretched away to Lanka (Kama-lanka), and then keeping along the Kalinga coast i.e. the coast of Pegu) they came to the country of the naked men. The king of this country behaved well to the pilgrim, and he remained there several years. He then proceeded to Tamralipti where he passed three years learning the Sanskrit language. After visiting the Vajrábana and worshipping the Bodhi Tree, he passed to Nåland a where hestudied the Kosha, and after a year or two went to the Vulture Peak near Rajag riba, and finally proceeded to South India, and going through the Maratha Country in Western India he studied a work called the Ta-ming-chau, in Sanskrit the Vedidharapitaka. The current tradition is that this work was in 100,000 slokas, which, in a Chinese translation, would represent 300 chapters (kiuen), but that a great portion is lost--and that after the death of the great Holy One the spirit of the verges was preserved by Arya Nagarjuna. Taou-lin after this proceeded to Kasmir and the country
of U dy ana, and dwelt in Kapisa, where he adored the skull bone of Buddha---he then returned by seals to Quědah (Kie-c'ha). He was here informed by some Northern Tartars (hu) that there were two priests in their country agreeing in description with some friends of his, he returned therefore to North India, where he died, aged 50 years or so.
10. Another priest called Tan-Kwong of the same district in China, went to India by the Southern Sea route, and having arrived at A-li-ki-l o (Arakan ) he was reported to have found much favour with the king of that country, and to have got a temple built, and books and images; finally he was said to have died there.
11. Hwui-ming, a priest from the same district, set out to go to India by the Southern Sea route, but the ship being baffled by contrary winds put in at Tung-chu (copper pillars) in Ma-yoen, and after stopping at Shang-king returned to China.
12. Hwui Ta, a priest of Kang.chow and the district of Kiang Ning, was a man of high family. He appears to have accompanied an envoy in a Persian ship to the Southern Seas. Having arrived at Fo-shai (Sribhôja) he remained there six months studying the Sabdavidya. The king was highly courteous, and on the occasion of his sending a present to the country of Mo-lo-yu (Malaya), Hwui-ta proceeded there and remained two months. He then went on to Quědâh, and then at the end of winter went in the royal ship towards Eastern India. Going north from Qučdah, after 10 days or so, they came to the country of the naked men. For two or three lis along the eastern shore there were nothing but cocoanut trees and forests of betel vines. The people, when they saw the ship, came alongside in little boats with the greatest clamour; there were upwards of 100 such boats filled with cocoanuts and plantains, they had also baskets, &c. made of rattan; they desired to exchange these things for whatever we had that they fancied, but they liked nothing so much as bits of iron. A piece of this metal two fingers length in size would buy as many as 5 or 10 cocoanuts. The men here are all naked, the women wear a girdle of leaves; the sailors in joke offered them clothes, but they made
15 Straits of Banca ?
Lo-td, it was by mistake suggested above (note, p.
uo), that this might be the Ldr of the Arabs and Låta of the Hindus.-ED.
* The Southern Sea route.
