The Silk Road journey with Xuanzang
By: Sally Hovey Wriggins.
Contributors: Wriggins, Sally Hovey.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780813365992
Subjects: Xuanzang, -- ca. 596-664; Priests, Buddhist -- China -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this intrepid pilgrim traveled 10,000 miles on the Silk Road, meeting most of Asia's important leaders at that time. In this revised and updated edition, Sally Hovey Wriggins, the first Westerner to walk in Xuanzang's footsteps, brings to life a courageous explorer and devoutly religious man. Through the author's telling of Xuanzang's fascinating and extensive journey, the reader comes to know the contours of the Silk Road, Buddhist art and archaeology; the principles of Buddhism, as well as the geography and history of China, Central Asia, and India."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Xuanzang. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p.303-315) and index.