Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow

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“The connecting link, missing to all appearance, nevertheless existed and was to be found in the sacred books of the Tibetans and the Chinese. The travels of Fa-Hian, Hieun Tshang, I-tsing and others in India in the 5th and 7th centuries after Christ, well-known to the historian, threw some light on this subject; but the labours of the Indian Pandits in the propagation of Buddhism in the North and the far East, have been hitherto buried in oblivion, and it has been the earnest endeavour of our author to unearth them. He has simply broken the ice, and it is to be hoped that the information which he has brought to light will draw the attention of the public to this important subject, and induce men with greater resources at their command, to pursue these researches, and increase our knowledge of the origin and spread of a religion, which includes among its votaries almost a third of the population of the globe. “