The White Horse Temple: Lying 10 kilometres east of Luoyang, the White Horse Temple was built in AD 68 in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was the cradle of Chinese Buddhism. It was originally the place where Liu Zhuang, the second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, used as a summer resort and for study. In the year when Kasyapamatanga and another eminent Indian monk brought Buddhist scriptures to Luoyang on the back of a white horse to spread Buddhism, the emperor,a devout believer in Buddhism, built the first government-run temple in China and called it White Horse Temple. The temple was the earliest sanctuary for Buddhist rituals in China. Legend has it that there were several thousand monks in the temple. During the turmoil of Wang Mang (D8-23) in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Cool and Clear Terrace of the Temple alone held over 20,000 refugees. Today, there still remain the column bases of the halls of the Cool and Clear Terrace. Kasyapamatanga and the other Indian monk were buried in the temple grounds. Following the example of the two eminent monks, many monks from the Western Regions came to Luoyang one after another. In the Tang Dynasty, Xuan Zang (602-664) went from Luoyang to the Western Regions to go on a pilgrimage for Buddhist scriptures for 17 years in the period 629 to 646. After returning to the homeland, he became the abbot of the White Horse Temple and disseminated the scriptures of Buddhism.