On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c7.s5.19

v1.c7.s5.19

The words here rendered “looked on death as going back to their kindred” are Shih-szŭ-ju-kuei (視死如歸). The expression means that the Che-ka men regarded death as a natural event, as a return to the state from which they had come. It is a literary phrase and is sometimes varied by the addition of chung (終), “the end.”