The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

With the greater movement of the merchants and missionaries of the West, ethnographic accounts about Buddhist beliefs and practices in different Asian nations began to be written 16th century onwards.

But a new paper maps the widespread travels of a 16th-century Buddhist yogi from Rameswaram. He set out from Tamil Nadu but went as far as Zanzibar in the west and Macau in the east—a testimony ...

The Chinese literary classic Journey to the West, written by Ming dynasty author ... to the “Eastern Heaven” of India to find some Buddhist sutras, is to show that Buddhism, Confucianism ...

In front of the temple’s main hall stands a lantern of Buddhist angels. Others include those of the Monkey King of “Journey to West,” a Chinese novel from the 16th century, and dragon ...