Though Fa-hsien in the fifth century was the first Chinese Buddhist pilgrim to visit India, the trip by Hsüan-tsang more than two centuries later was equal if not greater in terms of historical significance. As Fa-hsien spurred Chinese interest...

XUANZANG (596?–664), religious name of the Chinese pilgrim-monk who became a leading cleric of the early Tang dynasty after returning from an eighteen-year journey to the homeland of Buddhism in India. Famous in his own day as a Buddhist scholar...

(The name is spelt variously.) One of China’s greatest scholars and her greatest pilgrim-traveller. Born in 602 in Loyang, he left China in 629 and returned in 645 with twenty horses laden with Sk. Bst. works from India. Spent remaining nineteen...

602-664 Chinese Buddhist monk who made an important pilgrimage to India. Eager to settle certain theological questions in the land where Buddhism had its origins, Hsüan-tsang set out for India in the 620s. Travel into China's western...

Xuanzang (Chinese: ç"å¥; pinyin: Xuán Zàng; Wade-Giles: Hsüan-tsang) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator that brought up the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period. (602? to 664. He became...