This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...the ushnlsha," that is, manifested occasionally as a miraculous phenomenon. It is also stated that the ushnlsha is not visible to the eyes of ordinary beings.4 Nearly two hundred years before Yuan-chuang's time a Chinese pilgrim by name Chih-meng (jj Jf ) had seen, it is recorded, the Ushnlsha-bone along with other ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...the ushnlsha," that is, manifested occasionally as a miraculous phenomenon. It is also stated that the ushnlsha is not visible to the eyes of ordinary beings.4 Nearly two hundred years before Yuan-chuang's time a Chinese pilgrim by name Chih-meng (jj Jf ) had seen, it is recorded, the Ushnlsha-bone along with other relics of the Buddha in Kapilavastu, but this must be regarded as a mistake of a copyist.5 Two later pilgrims Tao-lin and Hsiian-chao, the latter a contemporary of Yuanchuang, visited Kapis and there paid reverence to the ushnlsha or skull-top bone of the Buddha.6 By Kapis we are probably to understand Nagar then a part of the Kapis kingdom. Then a century after Yuan-chuang's time Wu-h'ung went to see "Sakya Juki's skull-top bone (or Ushnlsha) relic" in the city of Gandhara.' It is interesting to observe that we do not find mention of any Buddhist monks as being concerned in any way with this precious relic. Fa-hsien, indeed, places it in a ching-she or temple, but this was apparently only the name which he gave to the building because it contained the relic. Yuan-chuang does not make mention of any sacred building; he refers only to a tall two-storey building and this is apparently the high two-storeyed Hall of Fa-hsien. The latter pilgrim also mentions the small tope of the seven precious substances in which the casket containing the ushnlsha was kept. This little tope is described by Fa-hsien as being moreover free, opening and shutting, and about five feet in height.1 The official custodians of the relic paid all expenses by charging the devout pilgrims according to a fixed tariff for seeing the relic, and for also taking an impression of its upper surface in clay or wax, and they acted in like manner with the other Buddha...
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