Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.6

c30.6

**Its Difficulties.** The Chinese regard for India and her culture expresses itself in the Chinese designation, *Yin-tu*, given to the country. According to Hiuen Tsang, the term means “moon”, and is applied to India because, like the moon, India is the only country which, through a regular succession of great sages, illumined the spiritual darkness in which humanity was merged at the setting of the sun of the Buddha (p. 138). It was the intense yearning after Indian wisdom that fortified the heart of Hiuen Tsang against the dangers and difficulties of his extensive travel which were even greater in his case than in that of his predecessor, Fa-Hien. “He had been where no other had been, he had seen and heard what no other had ever seen and heard Alone he had crossed trackless wastes tenanted only by fierce ghost-demons.