Note 1 — CHAP. III.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. xv. p. 99; ch. xx. p. 123. In the Itinerary of KÉ-NËĔ's Travels in the Western Kingdoms in the tenth Century he mentions having seen a monastery of Singhalese on the continent of India.—KÉ-NËĔ, Se-yĭh hing-ching, A.D. 964—976.
2: Tae-ping, b. dcclxxxvii. p. 5.
3: Taou-e ché-lëŏ. "Account of Island Foreigners," quoted in the "Foreign Geography" b. xviii. p. 15. Se-yĭ-ke foo-choo. Ib. "At daybreak every morning the people are summoned, and exhorted to repeat the passages of Buddha, in order to remove ignorance and open the minds of the multitude. Discourses are delivered upon the principles of vacancy (nirwana?) and abstraction from all material objects, in order that truth maybe studied in solitude and silence, and the unfathomable point of principle attained free from the distracting influences of sound or smell."—Tsĭh-foo yaen-kwei, A.D. 1012, b. dcccclxi. p. 5.