Hsuan tsang biography examples
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HSUAN TSANG (var. Hiuen Tsiang)
A well known Chinese monk who visited India and traversed a large number of countries covering more than 50,000 Li. Though the dangers that he encountered were many he fulfilled his main objective undaunted bygd them. His contribution to the cause of Buddhism in general and to the Great Vehicle in particular fryst vatten immense. For these and many other reasons he is held by the Chinese Buddhists in the highest esteem among the pilgrims of his calibre.
The following upplysning on Hsūan-tsang's travels and his accounts of India and other countries which he travelled in his long journey is based mainly on two sources, namely, "Si-yu-ki, Buddhist Records of the Western World" an English translation of the kinesisk version of Hsūan-tsang and "The Life of Hiuen-tsiang" an English translation of his biography written in Chinese bygd Shaman Hwui-li, a disciple of his. Among secondary sources the most useful treatise fryst vatten 'On Yuan Chwang
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The life and adventures of a Chinese monk Hsüan-tsang
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The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to the West.
In 629 C.E., a Chinese Buddhist monk named Xuanzang wanted to go west to India to learn more about Buddhism, but at the time, the emperor had forbidden travel outside China. Xuanzang respected authority and he struggled with a decision on whether or not to make the journey. Xuanzang, a brilliant and devout man, in the end believed that going to India was the only way to answer questions that troubled Chinese Buddhists. He started a seventeen-year journey that year, much of it spent as a fugitive and travelling under the cover of darkness.
Xuanzang travelled along what we now know as the Silk Road. He survived the dangerous Taklamakan Desert and continued through the high and
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
HSUAN TSANG (HIOUEN THSANG, HIWEN T'SANG, Yuan Tsang, Yuan-Chwang), the most eminent representative of a remarkable and valuable branch of Chinese literature, consisting of the narratives of Chinese Buddhists who travelled to India, whilst their religion flourished there, with the view of visiting the sites consecrated by the history of Sakya Muni, of studying at the great convents which then existed in India, and of collecting books, relics and other sacred objects.
The importance of these writings as throwing light on the geography and history of India and adjoining countries, during a very dark period, is great, and they have been the subject