200 Sarat Chandra Das —Buddhist and other legends about Khoten. [No. 3, 
and So Chyi Dngn and Hor. Then a Bodhisattwa being born as king 
of the Dongma (Tibet) Buddhism will rise in Tibet where viharas and 
chhorten will be erected, two classes of clergy will be introduced and by 
degrees kings and ministers will be converted. Professors and teachers 
of Buddhism from other countries, and many excellent precepts (scrip¬ 
tures) will be introduced. The country of Li will then pass under 
the rule of that king of Tibet whose descendants to the seventh genera¬ 
tion will be devoted to the immaculate creed. 
In the country of Li, about the time of the decline of Buddhism 
its young king disliking the sacred creed expelled the Buddhist clergy 
and by degrees drove away those of the temples of Tsharma, Bong, 
Mekar, Kongnu &c. The expelled clergy with their sacred books 
and religious articles fled towards the country of Dongma (Tibet) and 
proceeding slowly as if guided by a laden yak arrived at a place 
called Tshal in Tibet ; their elders were taken to the king of Dongma 
whose wife was a Chinese princess ; she extended her patronage to them 
and inquiring if there were more monks in Li-yul she sent for those- 
that were still there. These men brought with them many pandits 
from Anshe, Shuli,* * * § Brusha (Dusha) and Kashmir. These Buddhists 
conducted religious services in the viharas of Tibet for three years, 
after which the princessf died of small-pox. At that time many people 
died of that disease. The ministers and officers of Tibet then holding 
a conference unanimously declared against permitting the Buddhist 
clergymen to remain in Tibet. They attributed this dire calamity 
to these monks who being expelled from Lhodal (Nepal) had settled in 
Tibet, the BandesJ from Aryavarta and the Tibetan monks were 
therefore compelled to fly towards the west to the country of Maha 
Gandhara,§ whither they carried all their religious books, &c. These 
Buddhist clergy of Jambu Dwipa were cordially received by the king 
of Maha Gandhara who supported them for a period of two 
years. In the meantime the king died leaving two sons who were 
Buddhists. Some ambitious Bandes taking advantage of the reigning 
king’s devotion to them killed him and usurped the throne. The king’s 
* Anshe and Shnli—Dr, Bnshell’s Early History of Tibet. After its (Pehnson) 
conquest by the Chinese in 648 A. D., it was made the seat of a governor generally 
styled the Anhsi Trehipo, who ruled also over Yutim (Khoten). Shule (Kashgar) 
and Luiyeh, a city on the southern bank of the river of the same name &c. 
t This was evidently princess Chin cheng mother of king Thi-srong-deu-tsan, 
who died in the year 741 A. D. 
J Bandes, (Sanscrit, Bandaya) one worthy of reverence—the common designa¬ 
tion by which the monks of Nepal, Kashmir &c. were known in Tibet. 
§ Maha Gandhara—great Gandhara or the modern Candahar and Cabul. 
