99 
A translation of the keddah annals. 
China taking Buddhist books with him in ( 7 ) .... I 
And that that religion reached Cochin-china in..*.** 
Some imagine that Bactria was their native country ( 2 ) 
Magadha sends an Embassy to China.... • • 
519 
540 
647 
6.50 
China Emperor sends one to Patna... 
to 
683 
667 
The five Indias sent Embassadors to China in 
According to Remusat the travels of the Chinese Lao tseu 
shew that he travelled to the west 8. O. 600-. 
A Buddhist missionary reached China from the west in R 0. 
217. But the official or state adoption of the religion did not 
take place until A. D. 58—and many priests of that faith arrived 
from Bokhara from the country of the Getes and from Hindustan 
to form establishments, and they preached their doctrines and 
taught the languages of India ( 3 ) 
F& Hian already quoted as the Chineee priest who travelled to 
India, by land, and returned via Ceylon, had crossed the Chinese 
frontier in A D 399. He touched at Java A. D 414. 
When Fa Hian returned to China the vessel had 200 men on 
board cr was capable of accommodating that number. 
Some light might be thrown upon the 'different form3 assumed 
by the Bali character during the periods where the Chinese B. 
Missionary Travellers Fa Hian, Hiu-an Shsaug, and Soutig Young 
respectively visited India, should copies of some of the many Bali 
works which they carried back to China be still extant in the latter 
country. 
Cosrnas Indicopleustes stales that in his lime between A. D. 522 
and A. D. 547 Ceylon was the emporium lor trade between China 
and the Persian and Arabian gulfs 
The Chinas were one of the [ 4 ] tribes which according to Menu 
had lost caste and sunk to the lowest grade, and weie called in 
Sanscrit Chin. Klaproth says that Tsin is the name of the Dynasty 
which reigned over China B. C. 249 to 202. But Menu is bene veil 
to have written about A. D. 500 and the various castes he desctiues 
are supposed to have been Buddhists. 
In the Nouv. Melanges Asiatiques Tom 1 p. 796 quoted by 
Lt.-Col. Sykes, the following dates occur besides those already 
noted : 
There is a tradition that the emperor Ming Se A. D. 58 to 76 
eent ambassadors to India to inquire about Buddha : the con¬ 
sequence was that Buddhism began to prevail in China A. D, 147 
to 167, 
t 1 ] Crawfurd Mission to Siam. 
2 I Lt. Col. Sykes No. XII J. R. A. S. p. 304. 
3 1 Lt. Col. Sykes No. XII Do, Do, Art. XIV, J. R. A. S, 
J. R. A. S, No. xiii p. 393, 
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