Title: Ultimate journey
Subtitle: retracing the path of an ancient Buddhist monk who crossed Asia in search of enlightenment
First published: 2001
Description: "Richard Bernstein's story of his long journey through Asia is at once a memoir of adventurous travel and a record of cultural discovery and spiritual quest.".

"In the year 629, a greatly revered Chinese Buddhist monk, Hsuan Tsang, set out across Asia in search of the Buddhist Truth, to settle what he called the "perplexities of my mind." Nearly a millenium and a half later, Richard Bernstein retraces the monk's steps: from the Tang dynasty capital at Xian through ancient Silk Road oases, over forbidding mountain passes to Tashkent, Samarkand, and the Amu-Darya River, across Pakistan to the holiest cities of India - and back.".

"Ultimate Journey is a vivid, profoundly felt account of two stirring adventures - one in the past and one in the present - in pursuit of illumination."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, Buddhist Priests, Description and travel, China, biography, Asia, description and travel, Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
Places: China, Silk Road
People: Xuanzang (ca. 596-664)