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Updated: June 29, 2025
The current carried it away to the Yangtze-kiang, and once there it drifted on as far as the monastery on the Golden Hill, which is an island lying in the middle of the river. There a priest who had come to draw water found it. He fished it out and took it to the monastery. When the abbot saw what had been written in blood, he ordered his priests and novices to say nothing about it to any one.
The meaning of the terrible appearance of the third godhead, evidently no longer understood by the people, points to Siva, and has given rise to the fairy-tale here told. As regards the Monk of the Yangtze-kiang, comp. with No. 69.
They are all brothers, and are descended from the father of the Monk of the Yangtze-kiang. When the latter was sailing on the river he was cast into the water by a robber. But he did not drown, for a Triton came his way who took him along with him to the dragon-castle.
So he was allowed to take the vows, and when his head had been shaven was named: "The Monk of the Yangtze-kiang." By the time he was twelve he was as large and strong as a grown man. The abbot, who knew of the duty he still had to perform, had him called to a quiet room. There he drew forth the letter written in blood and gave it to him.
"The danger of thunder": Three times the foxes must have escaped the mortal danger of thunder. There where the Yangtze-kiang has come about half-way on its course to the sea, the Frog King is worshiped with great devotion. He has a temple there and frogs by the thousand are to be found in the neighborhood, some of them of enormous size.
There are, of necessity, many trials, and few can reach the ultimate end. Yet even the Yangtze-kiang has a source." "Of your unswerving tenacity this person has already been witness," said the maiden, with a glance of refined encouragement. "Your words are more inspiring than the example of the aged woman of Shang-li to the student Tsung," declared Lao Ting gratefully.
But one of his uncles, who was known at court, was still living. He took soldiers and soon made an end of the robbers. But the monk's mother had died in the meantime. From that time on, the Monk of the Yangtze-kiang lived in a pagoda in Sianfu, and was known as Huan Dschuang. When the emperor issued the order calling the priests of Buddha to court, he was some twenty years of age.
The day was just dawning, so the soldier swung himself into his saddle and rode away. Once upon a time there lived a man south of the Yangtze-kiang. He had taken a position as a teacher in Sutschoufu, on the border of Shantung. But when he got there he found that the schoolhouse had not yet been completed.
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