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The Emperor Harsha and the T'ang Emperor T'ai Tsung exchanged embassies but a second embassy sent from China arrived after Harsha's death and a usurper who had seized the throne refused to receive it.

Even before they had conquered China, their prince, T'ai Tsung, ordered an inspection of monasteries and limited the number of monks.

The second Sung Emperor also, T'ai Tsung, was not hostile, for he erected in the capital, at enormous expense, a stupa 360 feet high to contain relics of the Buddha.

The Money-tree In later times, however, these Door-gods were supplanted in popular favour by two ministers of the Emperor T’ai Tsung of the T’ang dynasty, by name Ch’in Shu-pao and Hu Ching-tê.

T’ai Tsung had fallen sick, and imagined that he heard demons rampaging in his bedroom.