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Tang Dynasty

Fourteenth-century Japanese painting of Xuanzang in a patterned robe, carrying a tall bundle of Buddhist scriptures on his back.

Xuanzang’s Long Road Home: A Pilgrimage Becomes a Library

Xuanzang returned to Chang’an in 645 with hundreds of Buddhist texts. The journey through Central Asia and India was only the beginning of the work of translating them.

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