Note 567 — CXV. ARRIVAL OF BUDDHIST PRIESTS.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
Much of the above recalls Fa Hsien’s narrative of his celebrated journey from China to India in the early years of the fifth century of our era, with which our author was evidently well acquainted. That courageous traveller complained that of those who had set out with him some had stopped on the way and others had died, leaving him only his own shadow as a companion. return to text