Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s6.30

c32.s6.30

Another famous monk and scholar of Udyāna was Narendrayasas who, after touring the whole of India and Ceylon, started for China with five companions, crossing the Hindu Kush. Their progress was stopped for a time by local fighting between the Turks and the Chinese. He arrived in China in a.d. 556 at 40 and translated seven texts while residing in a temple. In a.d. 577 an anti-Buddhist dynasty came into power and sent into exile these Indian monks. It was supplanted in a.d. 581 by a pro-Buddhist Dynasty. By that time, a Chinese Mission, who had visited India during a.d. 575–581, and were stopped on their way back in the territory of the Turks, were free to return to their native land, bringing with them a large number of Sanskrit Texts. A Board of thirty translators was appointed by the new emperor and Narendrayasas was recalled from his exile in a.d. 582 and placed in charge of the Board. Within three years, he brought out eight works in Chinese. He died in a.d. 589.