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 ...

What kept Xuanzang going, he wrote in his famous account of the journey, was another precious item carried along the Silk Road: Buddhism itself. Other religions surged along this same route ...

It was built in 669 during the Tang Dynasty to bury Buddhist priest Xuanzang's remains. In 828 it was rebuilt as it is today. The five-storey brick pagoda has a square ground plan, with each side ...