Behind the tope there has been built a Hall of Buddha,( 15) of the utmost magnificence and beauty, the beams, pillars, venetianed doors, and windows being all overlaid with gold-leaf.

Besides this, the apartments for the monks are imposingly and elegantly decorated, beyond the power of words to express.

Of whatever things of highest value and preciousness the kings in the six countries on the east of the (Ts'ung) range of mountains( 16) are possessed, they contribute the greater portion (to this monastery), using but a small portion of them themselves.( 17) NOTES (1) This fondness for music among the Khoteners is mentioned by Hsuan and Ch'wang and others.
(2) Mahayana.

It is a later form of the Buddhist doctrine, the second phase of its development corresponding to the state of a Bodhisattva, who, being able to transport himself and all mankind to nirvana, may be compared to a huge vehicle.

See Davids on the "Key-note of the 'Great Vehicle,'" Hibbert Lectures, p.