Tuesday

Finally, after years of travelling, I reached India. It feels so sweet to know that i have set foot on the country where Bhudisim originated. I reached Peshawar and visited a number of stupas, one of them the Kanishka Stupa. I travelled eastwards and reached Udnaya and found 1400 old monastaries. I was amazed at the number of old monastaries there and the numerous monks it used to support. I then headed to Taxila, a Mahayana Bhuddist kingdom that was a vassal of Kashmir. That was where I exactly headed next. There, I met a talented Mahayana monk. I plan to stay here to study Mahayana alongside other schools of Bhuddism.




"I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east."
9:57 PM


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.

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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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