XUAN ZANG'S JOURNAL.

Tuesday

Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Road

Standing Buddha, Gandhara, 1st century

The great Buddha resides here. It's peace within it. I am still continuing this journey. Every step I take, the closer i am to fulfilling my goal. This is something I will never regret.

Information on Buddha

The Buddhist faith and the Greco-Buddhist culture started to travel eastward along the Silk Road, penetrating in China from around the 1st century BC.

The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism to China started in the 1st century CE with a semi-legendary account of an embassy sent to the West by the Chinese Emperor Ming (58 – 75 CE). The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism essentially ended around the 7th century with the rise of Islam in Central Asia.

"I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east."
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PROFILE

I amXUAN ZANG!
Chinese Name: 玄奘
Pin Yin: Xuán Zàng
BACKGROUND:
Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler and translator that brought up the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period.
Birth place & period: born near Luoyang, Henan in 1602

GOALS

A seventeen year trip to India,
to study with many famous Buddhist masters,
especially at the famous center of Buddhist learning at Nālanda University.

COMMENT

SOURCES

Dunhuang
Journey to the West
Laputan Logic
Pictures of Xuan Zang
The Mongols
The Silk Road
Wikepedia-The Silk Road
Wikepedia-Xuan Zang

MY PICTURE COLLAGE

Pictures of my Journey

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