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300 fame, and in 382 sent with 70,000 men to fetch him. In 385 the latter, hearing of 's fall, established himself at Lianga-chou in Kansuh (see ), where Kamara lived in honour but without any great propagandist success. In 401, after the defeat of, Kumara went to the Court of ; and in 405 he became State Preceptor, and dictated his commentaries on the sacred books of Bnddhism to some eight hnndred priests. He also wrote the 實相論 shástra on Reality and Appearance, especially for Yao Hsing who reverenced him as a God. At his death, his body was cremated, but his tongue remained unhurt in the midst of the fire. Is known as one of the Four Suns of Buddhism.   Kun 鯀. Father of the Great, and Earl of 祟 Ch'ung. He was Minister of Works under the Emperor, B.C. 2297, and was appointed to drain the empire. Failing in this, he was banished, and the work was entrusted to his son.   Kung, Prince 恭親王 (M. 弈訢). Born A.D. 1832. The sixth son of the Emperor, and brother of the Emperor who in 1850 conferred upon him the title by which he has since been known. His first appearance in public was in 1858, as member of the commission which tried, the great Minister who had signed the Treaty of Nanking. In the following year he was nominated member of the Colonial Board which controlled the affairs of the "outer barbarians;" and was subsequently appointed plenipotentiary for the conclusion of peace with the victorious Europeans when in 1860 they reached the gates of the capital. While the Emperor Hsien Fêng fled to Jehol and refused to hold any intercourse with the foreigners, Prince Kung threw himself into his arduous task of obtaining the best possible terms from an enemy not only encouraged by military success but irritated by the treacherous seizure of the late Sir Harry 