A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
(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 years of his life translating them into Chinese, thus in effect founding Chinese Bsm. In his epic journey (see Watters, On Yuang Chwang’s Travels in India, 1904–5) he crossed the Gobi Desert, Hindu Kush and Pamirs and reached Bactria. Converted Emperor Harsha (q.v.) to M. Bsm., spent five years in the University of Nālanda (q.v.) and in China introduced the Dharma-lakshana School of Vasubandhu. See Beal’s trans. of The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang by Hwui-Li, and Grousset, In the Footsteps of the Buddha (1932).
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