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0334 On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks : vol.1
中央アジア踏査記 : vol.1
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years for this cherished pious object he had spent next to
nothing on himself and his two humble acolytes.
I need not tell here the whole story of our lengthy struggle
with his objections, conscientious and otherwise. Wang Tao-
shih's ignorance of all that constitutes traditional Chinese
learning would have made it useless to talk to him about my
scholarly interests. But there was fortunately other help to
fall back upon—the memory of the great Chinese pilgrim
Hsüan-tsang. And to this our success in the end was largely
due, apart from Chiang Ssŭ-yeh's tactful diplomacy. Al-
ready the fact of my well-known attachment to the mem-
ory of the saintly traveller had been helpful; for curiously enough
the Tao-shih, though poorly versed in, and indifferent to,
things Buddhist, was quite as ardent an admirer in his own
way of 'T'ang-sên', 'the great monk of the T'ang period',
as Hsüan-tsang is popularly known, as I am in another.
There was visible proof of the priest's devotion to the
great pilgrim's memory in the pictures with which he
had caused the new loggia facing the cave temple to be
decorated. They illustrated quaintly enough those fantastic
legends which have transformed my Chinese patron saint
in popular Chinese belief into a kind of Münchhausen. It is
true they are not to be found in the genuine Memoirs and
biography of Hsüan-tsang. But why should this little differ-
ence matter? The priest was obviously impressed by what
in my poor Chinese I could tell him of my own devotion to
the great pilgrim, and how I had followed his footsteps from
India across inhospitable mountains and deserts.