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Excerpt from Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Apostleship of St. Thomas to the Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope
Wang-tenn, and fifteen other men to the West, to obtain information concerning the doctrine of Buddha. In the tenth year (a. D. These emissaries being sent into Central India, procured a statue of Buddha, and some Sanscrit books, which they conveyed on a white horse to the city of Lo The Chinese ambassadors, however, lost sight of the true object of their mission they suffered themselves to be seduced by the priests of India; and from that epoch is to be dated the introduction of Buddhism into China. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
