On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c20.119

v2.c20.119

離浮圖) or the Ch'io-li Tope.¹ In his account of the Buddha’s Tooth-stick Tree here, as before, Yuan-chuang uses the common Chinese term *Yang-chih* or “Willow-branch” instead of the correct term *Chih-mu* or “Tooth-stick”. This tree was afterwards seen by I-ching who is at pains to tell us that it was not a willow.² The Bālāditya Temple here mentioned was the Buddha Hall of the Monastery built by that king. In the *Life* this hall is placed to the north-east of Nālandā. It is probably the Bālāditya chaitya which I-ching describes as very beautiful, and as containing an image of the Buddha in the attitude of preaching.