[Footnote 647: [Chinese: ] Some of the principal statues in the caves of Lung-men were made at her expense, but other parts of these caves seem to date from at least 500 A.D. Chavannes, _Mission Archéol._ tome I, deuxième partie.] [Footnote 648: [Chinese: ]. Ta-Yün-Ching. See _J.A._ 1913, p. 149. The late Dowager Empress also was fond of masquerading as Kuan-yin but it does not appear that the performance was meant to be taken seriously.] [Footnote 649: "That romantic Chinese reign of Genso (713-756) which is the real absolute culmination of Chinese genius." Fenollosa, _Epochs of Chinese and Japanese art_ I. 102.] [Footnote 650: [Chinese: ], [Chinese: ]] [Footnote 651: [Chinese: ]] [Footnote 652: [Chinese: ] The meaning of this name appears to vary at different times. At this period it is probably equivalent to Kapisa or N.E. Afghanistan.] [Footnote 653: [Chinese: ]] [Footnote 654: See _B.E.F.E.O._ 1904, p. 161. This does not exclude the possibility of an opposite current, _viz._ Chinese Buddhism flowing into Burma.] [Footnote 655: Wu-Tsung, 841-847.] [Footnote 656: "Liu-Tsung-Yuan has left behind him much that for purity of style and felicity of expression has rarely been surpassed," Giles, _Chinese Literature_, p. 191.] [Footnote 657: Apparently in 783 A.D. See Waddell's articles on Ancient Historical Edicts at Lhasa in _J.R.A.S._ 1909, 1910, 1911.] [Footnote 658: [Chinese: ]] [Footnote 659: [Chinese: ]] [Footnote 660: See Eitel, _Handbook of Chinese Buddhism_, p. 185 _s.v._ Ullambana, a somewhat doubtful word, apparently rendered into Chinese as Yü-lan-p'ên.] [Footnote 661: Sec Nanjio Catalogue, pp. 445-448.] [Footnote 662: He is also said to have introduced the images of the Four Kings which are now found in every temple. A portrait of him by Li Chien is reproduced in Tajima's _Masterpieces_, vol. viii, plate ix. The artist was perhaps his contemporary.] [Footnote 663: _E.g._ Sacki, _The Nestorian Monument in China_, 1916. See also above, p. 217.] [Footnote 664: See Khuddaka-Patha, 7; Peta Vatthu, 1, 5 and the commentary; Milinda Panha, iv. 8, 29; and for modern practices my chapter on Siam, and Copleston, _Buddhism_, p. 445.] [Footnote 665: [Chinese: ] Some native critics, however, have doubted the authenticity of the received text and the version inserted in the Official History seems to be a summary. See Wieger, _Textes Historiques_, vol. iii. pp. 1726 ff., and Giles, _Chinese Literature_, pp. 200 ff.] [Footnote 666: The officials whose duty it was to remonstrate with the Emperor if he acted wrongly.] [Footnote 667: Giles, _Chinese Literature_, pp. 201, 202--somewhat abbreviated.] [Footnote 668: See Wieger, _Textes Historiques_, vol. III. pp. 1744 ff.] [Footnote 669: "Thousands of ten-thousands of Ch'ing." A Ch'ing = 15.13 acres.] [Footnote 670: Presumably similar to the temple slaves of Camboja, etc.]