Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s4.t3.78

v1.c7.s4.t3.78

When they arrived in Khotan (near present-day Hotan, Xinjiang), they saw the king wearing a gold crown and women having good expertise in riding horses. The dead were cremated and the remains were put on the Buddhist temple. However, only the king was not cremated after death and put in the coffin, buried in the remote wild and a temple was built to offer sacrifice to him. There was a stupa and Pratyekabuddha boots in Khotan. In July, the second year of Shengui (519 CE), they came to Zhujubo (present-day Karghalik of Yecheng County in Xinjiang), the natives lived in the mountains and they did not kill animals. They fed on wheat flour