Tripitaka said: “When I left Chang’an, I vowed in the Hall of the Dharma Gates that I would not pass by a temple without burning incense, nor a monastery without paying homage to Buddha, nor a pagoda without sweeping its courtyard or stairs.”
Tripitaka and his disciples traveled eight hundred miles in a single day to cross the immense Flame Mountain after extinguished its flames. Autumn was coming to an end, and winter had begun to show signs of its imminent arrival.