[667] Giles, Chinese Literature, pp. 201, 202—somewhat abbreviated.
[668] See Wieger, Textes Historiques, vol. III. pp. 1744 ff.
[669] "Thousands of ten-thousands of Ch'ing." A Ch'ing = 15.13 acres.
[670] Presumably similar to the temple slaves of Camboja, etc.
[671] One Emperor of this epoch, Shih-Tsung of the later Chou dynasty, suppressed monasteries and coined bronze images into currency, declaring that Buddha, who in so many births had sacrificed himself for mankind, would have no objection to his statues being made useful. But in the South Buddhism nourished in the province of Fukien under the princes of Min
and the dynasty which called itself Southern T'ang.
See Kokka No. 309, 1916.