Wu Cheng'en
He became famous for his seventeen-year overland journey to India (including Nalanda Monastery), which is recorded in detail in the classic Chinese text Dà Táng Xīyù Jì ("Great Tang Records on the Western Regions"), which in turn provided the inspiration for the novel "Journey to the West" written by Wu Cheng'en during the Ming dynasty, around nine centuries after Xuanzang's death.