Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.5

c30.5

**The object of his travel and its success.** The object of his travels was “to visit the holy land of his religion, to see its far-famed shrines, and all visible evidences of the Buddha’s ministrations, to procure the sacred books of his religion in their original language and to learn the true meaning of their doctrines from orthodox pundits in India” (p. 11, ed. Watters, to be referred to throughout). The traveller brought with him to his native land no less than 657 sacred books of Buddhism, “images of the Buddha and his saints in gold, and silver, and crystal, and sandalwood,” together with “many curious pictures, and, above all, 150 relics, true relics of the Buddha”, which had to be “borne on twenty horses” (p. 12).