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0139 Southern Tibet : vol.1
Southern Tibet : vol.1 / Page 139 (Color Image)

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that before and after I-Tsing hundreds of travellers went out with the same object.
He shows that there must have been a continual stream of pilgrims to India braving
the dangers of land and sea. Those who travelled by land had to cross the
Gobi desert.

On his first journey (about 650—664 A. D.) one of the Pilgrims, HSUAN-CHAO
(Hiuen-chao), has on two different occasions visited Southern Tibet. The first time
he entered T'u-fan (T'u-po) from the west; after which queen Wên-ch'éng, a Chi-
nese princess, ordered that he should be brought to Northern India. His return
journey brought him back to Tibet, but this time viâ Nepal. Again the Tibetan
queen gave him an honourable reception; after which he returned to China straight
across Tibet. On both occasions he must therefore have been at the Yere-tsangpo.
On his second journey, which he started in 665, he was not fortunate. Once he was
attacked by Tibetan robbers, and when it was his intention to return home viâ Nepal
and Tibet, the Tibetans prevented him from entering their country. Therefore he
was obliged to return to India where he finally died.¹