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Xuanzang travels to India and back

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The monk leaves Chang'an in defiance of an imperial travel ban, crosses the Tarim oases and Central Asia to India, studies at Nalanda, and returns sixteen years later with 657 Sanskrit texts. His return route crosses the Pamir. The account he compiles in 646 remains a principal source for the geography and religious life of the corridor.

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  1. Story
  2. The monk leaves Chang'an in defiance of an imperial travel ban, crosses the Tarim oases and Central Asia to India, studies at Nalanda, and returns sixteen years later with 657 Sanskrit texts. His return route crosses the Pamir. The account he compiles in 646 remains a principal source for the geography and religious life of the corridor.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Chang'an
  5. Pamir Mountains
  6. Buddhism
  7. Xuanzang
  8. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  9. Connections
  10. Xuanzang
  11. Buddhism
  12. Pamir Mountains
  13. Chang'an
  14. Buddhism
  15. Silk Road religious corridor
  16. Pamir Mountains
  17. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  18. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
  19. Sogdian merchant networks
  20. Silk Road religious corridor
  21. Xuanzang
  22. Mogao Caves
  23. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  24. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  25. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
  26. Gandhara
  27. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
  28. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
  29. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
  30. Buddhism attested in Han China
  31. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
  32. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  33. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
  34. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
  35. Kashgar
  36. Samarkand
  37. Xuanzang
  38. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  39. Xi'an
  40. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
  41. Tang Empire
  42. Zhang Qian returns to Chang'an
  43. Alopen reaches Chang'an
  44. Xuanzang travels to India and back
  45. The Nestorian Stele is erected at Chang'an
  46. Evidence
  47. Eyewitness description of the Tarim oasis kingdoms, the Pamir crossing, Central Asia and seventh-century India, compiled the year after Xuanzang's return. It records the state of Buddhist communities city by city and has been used by archaeologists to identify and locate sites.
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