who was hiuen sang? why is his visit important for us.
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Hiuen Tsiang) who visited India through the Silk Route between AD 627-643. He was a great traveler, scholar and translator. Till date his work on India is very significant. Hsuan Tsang was born in AD 602 at present day's Henan province, China.
His main purpose was to obtain Buddhist books and to receive instruction on Buddhism while in India, he ended up doing much more. He has preserved the records of political and social aspects of the lands he visited. ... Xuanzang obtained and translated 657 Sanskrit Buddhist works.
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In ancient history of India, you may have come across a name of Chinese Buddhist monk Haiyun Tsang he stayed in India through the silk route between AD 627-643. He was a great traveler, scholar and translator. To date, his work on India is very important.
Hueyan Tsang was born in Eden 602 in Henan Province, China. Since Hussain Tsang used to read religious books in childhood and traveled throughout China in search of good books on Buddhism. After finding some contradictions in the text books on Buddhism, he decided to visit India in search of true explanation, because India was the birthplace of Buddha. After getting to India, he lived for 17 years of his life here. During his entire stay, Huyang Tsang was traveling, searching, embubbing and learning. Hueyan Tsang recorded his travel details in the Chinese text of the Great Tang Records in the Western Region.
Hueyan Tsang left SSU-Cheuan without a travel permit in 627. He left this place very secretly because it was against the law of traveling abroad in China. Although he was on the main road but after his experience on the first post, where Huan Tsang was stopped, he made one round. Now he was in a place where there was no sign of life. Alongside with his method, Huiyang Tsang faced numerous tasks and crossed the desert and the mountains, which passed through Central Asian regions of Turfan, Karasahar, Tashkent, Samarkand and Bactria. But it did not stop them from coming to India. After traveling around 34 empires, he finally entered India in 631 through Hindu Kush. They spent about two years in north-west India and then went to the Ganges region to visit the holy Buddhist place. His visit included Kapilavastu (Buddha's birthplace), Banaras; Sarnath (where Buddha gave lectures), Bodhgaya (Buddha completed Nirvana at this place) and then Nalanda (Buddhist Education Center in India). For 15 months, Huan Tsang studied Sanskrit to study in Nalanda. He also studied Indian philosophy, grammar and logic.