On Yuan ChwangS: Travels In India 629645 A.D.

About The Book -: 1904 Excerpt: .The Ushnlsha, That Is, Manifested Occasionally As A Miraculous Phenomenon. It Is Also Stated That The Ushnlsha Is Not Visible To The Eyes Of Ordinary Beings.4 Nearly Two Hundred Years Before Yuan-ChuangS Time A Chinese Pilgrim By Name Chih-Meng Had Seen, It Is Recorded, The Ushnlsha-Bone Along With Other Relics Of The Buddha In Kapilavastu, But This Must Be Regarded As A Mistake Of A Copyist.5 Two Later Pilgrims Tao-Lin And Hsiian-Chao, The Latter A Contemporary Of Yuanchuang, Visited Kapis And There Paid Reverence To The Ushnlsha Or Skull-Top Bone Of The Buddha.6 By Kapis We Are Probably To Understand Nagar Then A Part Of The Kapis Kingdom. Then A Century After Yuan-ChuangS Time Wu-HUng Went To See Sakya JukiS Skull-Top Bone (Or Ushnlsha) Relic In The City Of Gandhara. It Is Interesting To Observe That We Do Not Find Mention Of Any Buddhist Monks As Being Concerned In Any Way With This Precious Relic. Fa-Hsien, Indeed, Places It In A Ching-She Or Temple, But This Was Apparently Only The Name Which He Gave To The Building Because It Contained The Relic. About The Author -: Thomas Watters (1840 -1901). He Was A Respected Oriental Scholar. He Was Home Schooled By His Father, The Rev. Thomas Watters, The Presbyterian Minister In Newtownards. He Entered QueenS College, Belfast In 1857 And Graduated With B.A. From QueenS University In 1861 And An M.A. In 1861. He Was Appointed To A Post In The Consular Service Of China In 1863 Going First To Peking (Beijing). He Was Then Posted In 1887-1888 As Acting Consul General In Corea (Korea), In Canton (Guangdong) 1891-1893 And Then Until April, 1895, Consul In Foochow (Fuzhou), When Failing Health Forced Him To Retire After 32 Years Service In The Far East. He Wrought Various Books. As- A Guide To The Tablets In A Temple Of Confucius, A Study In Chinese Philosophy Buddhism In China, Notes On The Miao-Fa-Lien-Hua-Ching, A Buddhist Sutra In Chinese, Fa-Hsien And His English Translat