HIUEN-TSANG II ह्वेन त्सांग II A Famous Chinese Buddhist Monk II PILGRIMAGE TRIPS II ......
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Date: 24/12/2021

HIUEN-TSANG
Hiuen Tsang was born in Luoyang, China in 602 and died on February 5, 664. Hiuen Tsang was the youngest of his four siblings. Its great-grandfather was the prefect in the royal college of the capital and his grandfather was a professor. Its father was a Confucianist. Despite this, he wanted to become a Buddhist monk. After the death of his father in 611, he lived in Jingtu Monastery with his elder brother Chensu (later called Changji).
During this period it studied Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. After the fall of the Sui dynasty in 618, the brothers fled to Chang'an, which was considered the capital of the Tang dynasty. From there he went south to Xinchuan. There both the brothers studied for two or three years in Kong Hui Monastery. He also studied Abhidharmakosh Shastra. There he talked about becoming a Buddhist monk. Due to his unique talent, at the age of thirteen, he became the abbot. In 622 he was made a full monk. When he was twenty years old.

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In 629, he was inspired to go to India in a dream. At the same time the war of the Tang dynasty and the Turks was going on. For this reason, the king had prohibited foreign trips. It prayed to some Buddhist defenders to flee the Tang kingdom via Liangzhou and Qinghai provinces. Then it reached Turfan via Kumul, Tian Shan in the west direction through the Gobi desert. This is about 630. The Buddhist king there armed it for the onward journey. He also gave it several letters of introduction. Then it reached Kucha with the bandits via Yankee and Theravada Math. From there it passed through Akru before turning northeast. Then via Tokmak, Uzbekistan, through the Tian Shan Pass in Kyrgyzstan, met the great Khan. Then he moved west and southwest to Che-shih (the present capital) in Tashkent.
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