A Chinaman in the Salt Range
From the Blog odysseuslahori[image: salman rashid] The year was 630 AD, and China was ruled by T’ai Tsung, ‘the most powerful figure of the brilliant T’ang dynasty’, when a twenty six year old Buddhist monk left the city of Chang-an on a religious journey that was to last sixteen years. This journey was to take our pilgrim to nearly all the sites in the Indian subcontinent connected with the great Buddha. The fruit of this protracted labour was unprecedented reverence upon his return to China and to be acclaimed as one of the greatest Masters of Buddhism of all times. Hiuen Tsiang, however, was no ordinary monk. Even before the pilgrimage he was an acknowledged Master, versed in the tenets of Buddhism for whom religious books, imperfectly translated from the Sanskrit into Chinese, were a source of everlastipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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