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Article: Taking a new journey to the West
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- July 9, 2005
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Xuanzang (602-664 AD) is probably the most famous Chinese monk and
the man responsible for the imaginative interpretation of his
adventures in the classic Chinese novel "Journey to the West."
But his talents extended way beyond the representation of
fictional tales. A great ideologist, translator, traveller and
diplomat of the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), Xuanzang spent 17 years
and covered over 20,000 kilometres journeying to India to obtain
Buddhist sutras. And during his lifetime he translated 1,335 volumes
of them.
Sponsored by CCTV, China Xuanzang Research Centre and the Beijing
Science and Education Film Studio, a project entitled "The Pilgrimage
Journey of Xuanzang" will re-trace his ...