The bag in which he carried his water burst, and then even the courage of Hiouen-thsang failed.
In order to escape their notice, Hiouen-thsang had to make a long détour.
At the time when Hiouen-thsang was travelling in India, Buddhism was clearly on the decline.
Hiouen-thsang replied, 'I desire to adore the shadow of Buddha.
Stanislas Julien succeeded in procuring a copy of Hiouen-thsang in 1838; and after nearly twenty years spent in preparing a translation of the Chinese traveller, his version is now before us.
They now left him, and Hiouen-thsang found himself alone, without a friend and without a guide.
Hiouen-thsang visited the place on the banks of the Indus where this miracle was supposed to have happened, and he remarks that the soil is still red there from the blood of Buddha, and that the trees and flowers have the same colour.
But all doubt on the subject is removed by the fact that both Fahian in the fifth, and Hiouen-Thsang in the seventh centuries, visited the real ruins of that city.
It is impossible to do justice to the character of so extraordinary a man as Hiouen-thsang in so short a sketch as we have been able to give.
Hiouen-thsang was lost in contemplation and wonder, and would not turn his eyes away from the sublime and incomparable object.
In the "Memoires Sur les Contrees Occidentales traduits du Sanscrit par Hiouen Thsang et du Chinois par Stanislas Julien" we are expressly told that Gautama Buddha gave his flesh to the hawk as Sivi in a former state of existence.
Benfey considers it to be Buddhistic in origin, referring to Memoires sur les contrees occidentales traduits du Sanscrit par Hiouen Thsang et du Chinois par Stan.
Hiouen-thsang has not yet arrived at that sublime rank: how could he dare to receive them?
Five of the attendants saw the shadow, but the sixth saw nothing; and the guide, when Hiouen-thsang told him of the vision, could only express his astonishment.
Hiouen-thsang was born in a provincial town of China, in one of the revolutionary and anarchical periods of the Chinese Empire.
One of the Tatar Khans insisted that he should reside with him and teach his people; and as he would listen to no remonstrances or explanations, Hiouen-thsang was driven to a desperate expedient.
Hiouen-thsang resumed his journey, with his guide, and passed a stream which rushed tumultuously between the walls of a precipitous ravine.
During his reign the poet Bana flourished, and the celebrated Chinese pilgrim Hiouen Thsang visited India.
When Hiouen Thsang visited this place it was the capital of the celebrated monarch Harsha-vardhana, also called [.
Hiouen Thsang says that this place is near Prayaga (the modern Allahabad), and that A[.
Hiouen Thsang states that the three commentaries were engraved on sheets of copper and buried in a Stupa.
Hiouen Thsang mentions that a lofty Stupa, 200 feet high, was erected by A[.
Hiouen Thsang speaks of the town and of the objects of interest round it thus (Beal, ii.
He is said by Hiouen Thsang to have lived in Southern Ko[.
Hiouen Thsang states that in his time the towns and monasteries about [.
He ruled from the Indus to the Ganges, and his doings are described by Hiouen Thsang (Beal's Records, I.
Hiouen Thsang describes it under the name Kie-pi-tha (Kapitha).
Hiouen Thsang relates that there is a Vihara at Kapila-vastu indicating the spot 'where the Bodhi-sattva descended spiritually into the womb of his mother,' and that there is a representation of this scene drawn in the Vihara.
In Chang Yueh's preface[69] to these travels Hiouen Thsang is described as 'a Doctor of the three Pi[t.
It is a strange freak of historical preservation that the best account of the condition of India at that ancient period has come down to us in the books of travel written by the Chinese pilgrims, of whom Hwen Thsang is the best known.
Hiouen Thsang says of the schools in his day: "Les ecoles philosophiques sont constamment en lutte, et le bruit de leurs discussions passionnees s'eleve comme les flots de la mer.
At Kucinagara, on the place where the Enlightened slept never to wake again, the Chinese traveller Hiuan-Thsang found a pillar of Acoka's with inscriptions.
According to the account of Hiuan-Thsang stupas of Acoka existed at his time in the Deccan among the Andhras and Cholas, the Kanchis and Konkanas; in Nagara he saw a stupa, and in Udyana a vihara of Acoka.
The sutras of the Buddhists speak of a grammar of Indra, which is also mentioned by the Chinese Hiuan-Thsang as the earliest Indian grammar; from the fourth century B.
Fourth Malabar invasion The influence of the Malabars firmly established Distress of the Singhalese in the 7th century, as described by Hiouen Thsang A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thsang" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
