Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return

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1. Story
2. The Chinese monk Xuanzang travelled overland to India and back between roughly 629 and 645, returning with manuscripts and producing the Da Tang Xiyu Ji, a record of the western regions. His account is one of the richest descriptions of the corridor's monasteries, kingdoms and road conditions, and is a reminder that scholarly and devotional travel used exactly the same infrastructure as commerce, and often the same caravans.
3. Knowledge
4. Buddhism
5. Xuanzang
6. Silk Road religious corridor
7. Gandhara
8. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
9. Connections
10. Xuanzang
11. Silk Road religious corridor
12. Buddhism
13. Gandhara
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. Buddhism
20. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
21. Xuanzang
22. Dunhuang
23. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
24. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
25. Buddhism attested in Han China
26. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
27. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
28. Alopen received at the Tang court
29. The Xi'an stele is erected
30. Sogdian merchant networks
31. Silk Road religious corridor
32. Xuanzang
33. Mogao Caves
34. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
35. Xuanzang travels to India and back
36. The Dunhuang Diamond Sutra is printed
37. Gandhara
38. Ashoka (Ashoka Maurya)
39. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
40. Council at Pataliputra and the despatch of Buddhist missions (traditional account)
41. Buddhism attested in Han China
42. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
43. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
44. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
45. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
46. Religious syncretism at contact points
47. Buddhism
48. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
49. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
50. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
51. Evidence
52. A first-hand account of Xuanzang's nineteen-year journey from Tang China through the Western Regions to India and back, compiled in 646 CE, describing monasteries, kingdoms, road conditions and religious practice along the corridor. V55 verification basis: the text's authorship, compilation date and character are corroborated; the year of the standard English edition is NOT — a 1996 BDK English Tripitaka date was previously asserted here and could not be confirmed, so it has been removed rather than restated. A curator with library access should settle the edition.