Venerable Xuan Zang
Venerable Xuan Zang-The great Buddhist pilgrim Xuan Zang was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled overland and mainly following the Silk Road to obtain Buddhist scriptures in 629 CE. He brought the precious manuscripts with him returned to China for translating to Chinese in 645 CE. During his travels, he visited places that today are known as Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India. Xuan Zang absents in-depth accounts of his travels and also wrote about the relations between Chinese Buddhism and Indian Buddhism amongst the first Tang dynasty. His manuscript “Great Tang Records on the Western Regions” is a classic in Chinese literature, and contains much first-hand information about the lands, people, and Buddhism found along this stretch of the Silk Road in the 7 th century CE. Xuan Zang grew considered about the incomplete and misinterpreted the nature of many Buddhist texts in China. In 629 CE, he established forth to search for “the sacred traces of the Buddha” and to find th...