CHAPTER IV.
THROUGH THE TS'UNG OR "ONION" MOUNTAINS TO K'EEH-CH'A;--PROBABLY SKARDO, OR SOME CITY MORE TO THE EAST IN LADAK When the processions of images in the fourth month were over, Sang-shao, by himself alone, followed a Tartar who was an earnest follower of the Law,( 1) and proceeded towards Kophene.( 2) Fa-Hsien and the others went forward to the kingdom of Tsze-hoh, which it took them twenty-five days to reach.( 3) Its king was a strenuous follower of our Law,( 4) and had (around him) more than a thousand monks, mostly students of the mahayana.

Here (the travellers) abode fifteen days, and then went south for four days, when they found themselves among the Ts'ung-ling mountains, and reached the country of Yu-hwuy,( 5) where they halted and kept their retreat.( 6) When this was over, they went on among the hills( 7) for twenty-five days, and got to K'eeh-ch'a,( 8) there rejoining Hwuy-king( 9) and his two companions.
NOTES (1) This Tartar is called a {.} {.}, "a man of the Tao," or faith of Buddha.

It occurs several times in the sequel, and denotes the man who is not a Buddhist outwardly only, but inwardly as well, whose faith is always making itself manifest in his ways.

The name may be used of followers of other systems of faith besides Buddhism.
(2) See the account of the kingdom of Kophene, in the 96th Book of the first Han Records, p.

78, where its capital is said to be 12,200 le from Ch'ang-gan.