The Pilgrimage of Fa Hian from the French Edition of the Foe Koue Ki

Khian kouei is the name of a petty prince of the race of the Sian pi appertaining to the dynasty of the western Thsin or of Loung si who reigned in the western parts of Shen si at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century.* Khian kouei ascended the throne A. D 388.—R. [...] (9) The kingdom of Neon than.—This too is the name of a prince and not of a country.t Neou than ascended the throne of Ho si to the west of the Yellow river so late as the year jin yin of the Cycle (A. [...] The vehiculum which is common to the translations is the contemplation of the four realities namely pain reunion death and the doctrine ;and that of the twelve concatenations By this means man is transported beyond the boundary of the three worlds and the circle of birth and death. [...] The horse sinking deep but not reaching the bottom of the stream is the Pratyeka who by the means aforesaid suppresses the errors of sight and thought as well as the effects of prejudice and passion and manifests the nature of the true vacuum without attaining to absolute purity. [...] The gods whose images weroe placed at a greater distance from the principal figure are called Thian in the text ; these are the.Bevas ofihe Hindus the Lha of Tibet the Tagri of the Mongols ; such as 7ndra Brahma and other divinities of the Brahmanical pantheon far inferior in the system of the Buddhist to the pure or purified Intelligences the Buddhas Bodhisattwas ecc.—R.