Page. Preface 3 Buddhistic temples in Prågå-valley 5 Tyanḍi Mĕndut 13 Tyanḍi Pawon 23 Tyanḍi Båråbudur 26 Concluding word 90 Errata 92 Ruins of Buddhistic temples in Prågå-valley. I. The Buddhists believe their community, their worship, their church, or whatever one may be inclined to call this, to have been founded 24 centuries ago by the wise and humane king’s son of _Kapilavastu_, called Gautama, the _Shâkja muni_ or wise _Shâkja_, _Buddha_ or the _Enlightened_. All that which the later legends related either of Buddha himself or of his _former lives_, they consider historically true. Competent Orientalists, among whom the Dutch ex-professor Dr. H. Kern, stated however that, much about those legends that _cannot_ be true from a historical point of view, will become quite comprehensible and possible as soon as taken in a mythical sense, and when we understand the hero of the myth to be a sun-god. And then it will be perfectly indifferent to us, non-Buddhists, whether those legends may or may not have historical foundations and whether the _Buddha_ of the Buddhists may have really lived and existed or not. Still it is an indisputed matter of fact, that the Buddhist religion must have existed as such for about three centuries before the beginning of our era, and professed by king Ashoka _the great_. Inscriptions partly saved, and found upon columns, and on the walls of rocks, prove all this to be just[1]. This Buddhism taught that mankind might be freed from any sensual passion, and sin by following a pure conduct of life, and from the curse of being continually reincarnated in either a human or animal being, and that it could gain eternal rest as the highest reward of virtue on earth. And therefore Buddhism taught self-command, self-denial and self-conquest; the love of all beings either man or beast: patience with others, the sons of different castes, and patience too with the followers of all other religions.