In the seventh century, early in the Tang Dynasty, Hsuan-tsang (Xuangzang) entered a Buddhist monastery when he was thirteen. Later, he moved around China studying under different masters.
Finally, he went to India to study Buddhism at its source with Sanskrit masters where he spent over ten years, wrote a famous book about his journey, and returned to China with over six hundred original manuscripts.
The first 2:3 minutes summarizes his life, and when he died, it was reported that his funeral was attended by one million people.
Hsuan-tsang spent the rest of his life with a group of translators rendering seventy five of the most important works into Chinese. All of this work was sponsored by the Emperor of the newly established Tang Dynasty (618 – 906 AD).
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