[Footnote 646:  [Chinese:  ] See Vincent Smith, Early History of India, pp. 326-327, and Giles, Biog.  Dict., s.v. Wang Hsuan-T’se.  This worthy appears to have gone to India again in 657 to offer robes at the holy places.]

[Footnote 647:  [Chinese:  ] Some of the principal statues in the caves of Lung-men were made at her expense, but other parts of these caves seem to date from at least 500 A.D.  Chavannes, Mission Archeol. tome I, deuxieme partie.]

[Footnote 648:  [Chinese:  ] Ta-Yun-Ching.  See J.A. 1913, p. 149.  The late Dowager Empress also was fond of masquerading as Kuan-yin but it does not appear that the performance was meant to be taken seriously.]

[Footnote 649:  “That romantic Chinese reign of Genso (713-756) which is the real absolute culmination of Chinese genius.”  Fenollosa, Epochs of Chinese and Japanese art I. 102.]

[Footnote 650:  [Chinese:  ], [Chinese:  ]]

[Footnote 651:  [Chinese:  ]]

[Footnote 652:  [Chinese:  ] The meaning of this name appears to vary at different times.  At this period it is probably equivalent to Kapisa or N.E.  Afghanistan.]

[Footnote 653:  [Chinese:  ]]

[Footnote 654:  See B.E.F.E.O. 1904, p. 161.  This does not exclude the possibility of an opposite current, viz. Chinese Buddhism flowing into Burma.]

[Footnote 655:  Wu-Tsung, 841-847.]

[Footnote 656:  “Liu-Tsung-Yuan has left behind him much that for purity of style and felicity of expression has rarely been surpassed,” Giles, Chinese Literature, p. 191.]

[Footnote 657:  Apparently in 783 A.D.  See Waddell’s articles on Ancient Historical Edicts at Lhasa in J.R.A.S. 1909, 1910, 1911.]

[Footnote 658:  [Chinese:  ]]

[Footnote 659:  [Chinese:  ]]

[Footnote 660:  See Eitel, Handbook of Chinese Buddhism, p. 185 s.v. Ullambana, a somewhat doubtful word, apparently rendered into Chinese as Yu-lan-p’en.]

[Footnote 661:  Sec Nanjio Catalogue, pp. 445-448.]

[Footnote 662:  He is also said to have introduced the images of the Four Kings which are now found in every temple.  A portrait of him by Li Chien is reproduced in Tajima’s Masterpieces, vol. viii, plate ix.  The artist was perhaps his contemporary.]

[Footnote 663:  E.g. Sacki, The Nestorian Monument in China, 1916.  See also above, p. 217.]

[Footnote 664:  See Khuddaka-Patha, 7; Peta Vatthu, 1, 5 and the commentary; Milinda Panha, iv. 8, 29; and for modern practices my chapter on Siam, and Copleston, Buddhism, p. 445.]

[Footnote 665:  [Chinese:  ] Some native critics, however, have doubted the authenticity of the received text and the version inserted in the Official History seems to be a summary.  See Wieger, Textes Historiques, vol. iii. pp. 1726 ff., and Giles, Chinese Literature, pp. 200 ff.]