garding the future life and various things which appealed to their ideas of ancestor worship and, second, because the religion had more colour and life and direct appeal than any native one. The three men who were mentioned as pre-emmest pilgrims to India were Fa Hien, Hiuen-Tsiang, and Tsing. The first was characterized as a man of great simplicity and piety, He spent 14 years on his trip to India and most of his companions died during that time. He brought back the Rules of the Law from India.
The three routes by which pilgrims went to India in those days were the northern around Tibet, the southern, over the Burmese border, and the route by the sea, south from Hongkong.
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