[Buddha-l] Re: In the footsteps of Xuan Zhang (Stephen Hodge)

[Michael J. Wilson]

Not to mention the nearly 1 million British subjects who died and were buried in India, many suffering from ill health.

Mike


Joanna wrote:

> This is really intriguing...........I wonder what it was about India 
that 
> caused so much mortality. The climate? Did any of your reports 
speculate 
> as to the reasons?
As far as anything is mentioned, mainly disease and snake-bites were 
the 
main causes of death.  I wonder if there were diseases indigenous to 
India 
but rare or unknown in China to which the Chinese pilgrims had little 
or no 
resistance.  Yijing mentions brief bigraphical details of Chinese monks 
who 
went to India around the same time as he was living there.  There are 
about 
64 of them and almost 60 had died or gone missing never to be heard of 
again 
by the time Yijing left India.

After the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the subsequent flow of refugees 
into 
India, many of those Tibetans fell sick with TB to which they had not 
previously been exposed.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge 
  


		
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