Chapter III · KHOTEN. PROCESSIONS OF IMAGES. THE KING’S NEW MONASTERY.
James Legge translation
[Chinese]
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · This fondness for music among the Khoteners is mentioned by Hsüan and Chʽwang and others.Note 2 · Mahâyâna; See chap. ii note 4. It is a later form of the Buddhist doctrine, the second phase of its development corresponding to the state oNote 3 · Fâ-hien supplies sufficient information of how the common store or funds of the monasteries were provided, farther on in chapters xvi and xxNote 4 · The Chinese 塔 (tʽah; in Cantonese, tʽap), as used by Fâ-hien, is, no doubt, a phonetisation of the Sanskrit stûpa or Pâli thûpa; and it is wNote 5 · 5 The meaning here is much disputed. The author does not mean to say that the monk’s apartments were made ‘square,’ but that the monasteriesNote 6 · The Sanskrit term for a monastery is used here,—Saṅghârâma, ‘gardens of the assembly,’ originally denoting only ‘the surrounding park, but aNote 7 · A denomination for the monks as vimala, ‘undefiled’ or ‘pure.’ Giles makes it ‘the menials that attend on the monks,’ but I have not met witNote 8 · Kʽeeh-chʽâ has not been clearly identified. Rémusat made it Cashmere; Klaproth, Iskardu; Beal makes it Kartchou; and Eitel, Khasʽa, ‘an anciNote 9 · Instead of ‘four,’ the Chinese copies of the text have ‘fourteen;’ but the Corean reading is, probably, more correct.Note 10 · There may have been, as Giles says, ‘maids of honour;’ but the character does not say so.Note 11 · The Sapta-ratna, gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, rubies, diamonds or emeralds, and agate. See Sacred Books of the East (Davids’ BuNote 12 · No doubt that of Śâkyamuni himself.Note 13 · A Bodhisattva is one whose essence has become intelligence; a Being who will in some future birth as a man (not necessarily or usually the nNote 14 · 諸天, ‘all the thien,’ or simply ‘the thien’ taken as plural. But in Chinese the character called thien (天) denotes heaven, or Heaven, and is Note 15 · Giles and Williams call this ‘the oratory of Buddha.’ But ‘oratory’ gives the idea of a small apartment, whereas the name here leads the minNote 16 · The Tsʽung, or ‘Onion’ range, called also the Belurtagh mountains, including the Karakorum, and forming together the connecting links betweeNote 17 · This seems to be the meaning here. My first impression of it was that the author meant to say that the contributions which they received werNote 18 · Yu-teen is a pleasant and prosperous kingdom, with a numerous and flourishing population. The inhabitants all profess our Law, and join togeNote 19 · The lord of the country lodged Fâ-hien and the others comfortably, and supplied their wants, in a monastery called Gomati,6 of the mahâyâna Note 20 · Hwuy-king, Tâo-ching, and Hwuy-tah set out in advance towards the country of Kʽeeh-chʽâ;8 but Fâ-hien and the others, wishing to see the proNote 21 · The monks of the Gomati monastery, being mahâyâna students, and held in great reverence by the king, took precedence of all others in the prNote 22 · Seven or eight le to the west of the city there is what is called the King’s New Monastery, the building of which took eighty years, and ext