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The phrase occurs in the memoir of Chang K'een, referred to in the next note. Through him, by B.C. 115, a regular intercourse was established between China and the thirty-six kingdoms or states of that quarter; see Mayers' Chinese Reader's Manual, p. 5. The memoir of Chang K'een, translated by Mr. Less is known of Kan Ying than of Chang K'een.
The place and arrangements are to be found in the Records of the Nine Interpreters, but neither Chang K'een nor Kan Ying had reached the spot. The monks asked Fâ-hien if it could be known when the Law of Buddha first went to the east. Now the image was set up rather more than three hundred years after the Nirvâna of Buddha, which may be referred to the reign of king P'ing of the Chow dynasty.
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