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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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the Chinese, who disperse them and follow the newly
opened way westward to conquer a country, East
Turkestan, which had first been conquered by those
whom the Hueng-nu had dispossessed. This coun-
try had received Buddhist missionaries, who con-
vert the victorious Chinese, adding many millions
to those who believe that Gautama found the
great Deliverance through the great Renunciation.
In a little while the intimate coming and going
through Kashgaria is interrupted; China loses its
hold, but the seed is sown; and in 399, 318, and
629 A.D. Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, Fa-hien, Song-
Yang, and Weng T'sang, respectively, pass through
Turkestan to visit Indian shrines made sacred to
them through knowledge of the Teacher, and leave
to curious generations such scant knowledge of the
country as the troubled times permitted. Mean-
while, ere the first of these pilgrims had set his face
westward, Christianity had mounted the throne
of the Eastern Roman Empire; and while Weng
T'sang was drinking his soul's fill at fountain-spots
of Buddhist worship, his own Emperor was cour-
teously receiving a Christian missionary at the
national capital. Nor had Mohammedanism yet
uttered its world-wide cry, the Prophet being still
but a struggling Arab preacher. But the centuries
which had passed since the words of the Meditative
One had been carried over the Himalayas, from
oasis to oasis, and across the wide desert to
China's heart, had now given to Gautama's memory
a veneration which their successors have not yet
destroyed.
The Christian missionaries have in later days
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