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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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renewed the work of O-lo-peen, the Nestorian of
the seventh century; Islam has with the sword con-
quered the Turkestan region, which was the eastern
gate of Buddhism, and it raises its mosques in many
a village of China's sacred soil, yet the millions of
the great Empire are Buddhists, not good ones—for
it is hard, so hard, to be a good Buddhist—but
Buddhists as Smith and Jones are Christians.
Shortly after the journey of Weng T'sang, that
is, about the year 640 A.D., the administration of
Turkestan was again firmly in the hands of the
Chinese officials, only to be disturbed by marauding
bands of Tibetans; whether from the western Ladak
country, relatively near, or from the Lhasa country,
relatively far, seems not to be known. The centre
of Tibetan power was in the East, but the newly
conquered Ladak country may have served as the
base of operations and recruiting depot for this dash
against Kashgaria. This probably meant nothing
more than the killing of some thousands and the
maiming of some other thousands of field-workers
and shopkeepers—a too frequent occurrence in the
world's history to cause any shudders when sepa-
rated from us by thirteen centuries and seven thou-
sand miles. The Chinese soon drove out the Tibetans
(whose leaders, it seems, were but a few generations
down from Western China) and next had to contend
with the Mohammedan power which had established
itself, at the beginning of the eighth century, in all
the Samarcand region, west of Kashgaria. The
Chinese bond seems to have been strong enough in
716 A.D. to permit a troubled Emperor to call upon
Kashgaria—and even far Bokhara—for troops to
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