HSÜAN-TSANG

shüän-dzäng, 605?–664, Chinese Buddhist scholar and translator. He early entered monastic life and later traveled in China, teaching and studying. Between 629 and 645 he made a pilgrimage to India in search of authentic scriptures. He studied at Taxila and Nalanda, the most celebrated center of Buddhist learning in India, and also visited Kashmir and the major Buddhist holy places. Pious, learned, and fluent in Sanskrit, he was honored by the Indian rulers whom he met, including the Emperor Harsha. After returning to China he translated the texts he had brought back with him and wrote his memoirs. His disciple K'uei-chi is known as the founder of the Fa-hsiang school of Buddhism, the Chinese branch of Yogacara.

See his Si-yu-ki; Buddhist Records of the Western World (2 vol., tr. 1884, repr. 1969); A. Waley, The Real Tripitaka (1952); T. Loatters, On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India (1961); K. Ch'en, Buddhism in China (1964); R. Bernstein, Ultimate Journey (2001).

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The Real Tripitaka: And Other Pieces
Book by Arthur Waley; Allen and Unwin, 1952
Subjects: Hseuan-Tsang--Ca. 596-664, Tales--China
...journey to India. At Hami he fell in with ____________________ 1 See Aurel Stein, "The Desert Crossing of Hsuan-tsang", Indian Antiquary , vol. 50. envoys from the kingdom of Turfan, farther west. The dynasty that ruled Turfan was...
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The Flower of Chinese Buddhism
Book by Daisaku Ikeda, Burton Watson; Weatherhill, 1986
Subjects: Buddhism--China--History
...8. Hsuan-tsang and His Journey to India...Chinese were Kumarajiva, Paramartha, Hsuan-tsang and Pukung, who have come to be...Record of Buddhist Countries and Hsuan-tsang in his Record of the Western...
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Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road
Book by Sally Hovey Wriggins; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Priests, Buddhist--China--Biography
...ISBN 0-8133-2801-2 HC 1. Hsuan-tsang, ca. 596-664. 2. Priests, Buddhist...Xuanzang in older writings spelled Hsuan-tsang, Yuan Chwang, Hiuen Tsiang...the seventh century. Xuanzang Hsuan-tsang , one of the Silk Roads most famous...
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The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom; Text and Commentaries Translated from Sanskrit and Chinese
Book by Red Pine; Counterpoint, 2001
...Paramartha, Dharmagupta, nor Hsuan-tsang has parama-ashcaryan sugata...Dharmagupta has shun-she favor , Hsuan-tsang has she-shou assist , and Yi-ching...Neither Bodhiruci, Dharmagupta, Hsuan-tsang, Yi-ching nor the Tibetan has...
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Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India: Their History and Their Contribution to Indian Culture
Book by Sukumar Dutt; George Allen & Unwin, 1962
Subjects: Monasticism And Religious Orders, Buddhist
...and Near-contemporaries of Hsuan-tsang and I-tsing 289...extended his travels as widely as Hsuan-tsang did after him, he would perhaps...several storeys high, were seen by Hsuan-tsang and described by him. Between...
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A Chinese Madhyamaka Theory of Truth: The Case of Chi-Tsang
Journal article by Ming-Wood Liu; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 43, 1993
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian
...Ta-cheng hsuan-lun , T 45.15a15-17...invented by Chi-tsang. According to Chi-tsang...see Ta-cheng hsuan-lun , T 45.15a25-27...42.28c19-26. Chi-tsang also mentioned the...of the idea, Chi-tsang cites, besides the...See "Ta-cheng hsuan-lun", T 45.23a8-12...
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The Concept of Practice in San-Lun Thought: Chi- Tsang and the "Concurrent Insight" of the Two Truths
Journal article by Aaron K. Koseki; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 31, 1981
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian
...works, the San-lun-hsuan-i, Chi-tsang explained the two...and used by Chi-tsang is discussed by...in the Ching-ming hsuan-lun (Commentary on...30. Ta-cheng hsuan-lun, T45, 54a 31...In this case Chi-tsang again follows the...
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The Structure of Consciousness in Paramārtha's Purported Trilogy
Journal article by Diana Y. Paul; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 31, 1981
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian
...Paul Guethner, 1928-1948.) Hsuan-tsang does not represent early , however...differences in listing the mental states. Hsuan-tsang and the Sanskrit text list eleven...Paramartha follows Vasubandhu, whereas Hsuan-tsang follows Asafiga more closely...
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The Problem of the Historical Nagarjuna Revisited
Journal article by Ian Mabbett; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Buddhism--Personalities, Nagarjuna--Research
...repeated over and over again.(64) Hsuan-tsang, the famous seventh-century pilgrim...until Nagarjuna was decapitated; Hsuan-tsang offers a version of the story of...discussed elsewhere.(74) Elsewhere Hsuan-tsang refers to Nagarjuna as one of...
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The One and the Many: Yogācāra Buddhism and Husserl
Journal article by M. J. Larrabee; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 31, 1981
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian
...psychological view was taken by Hsuan-Tsang, a seventh-century Chinese follower...single ultimate reality. For Hsuan-Tsang, such a single ultimate could not...reality reached in nirvana, since Hsuan-Tsang claimed that even tathagatata...
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Balance and Basketball: A Talk with Phil Jackson
Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 113, December 4, 1996
Subjects: Basketball coaches--Interviews, Basketball--Religious aspects, Chicago Bulls--Personalities, Jackson, Phil--Interviews
...is Crazy Horse and Custer, by Stephen Ambrose - a terrific book. Another one Ive got going is about the travels of Hsuan-tsang. Its about the pilgrimage undertaken by a Chinese monk who left China to go to India to discover the Buddhist connection...


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University Results 2005: The University of Warwick; Postgraduate Degrees
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 26, 2005
...Tao, Qing Qing Tao, Jaakko Tiitola, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Evangelia Tzika, Gaurav Upadhyay...To, Hon Wai Mok, Yiu Lung Winfred Poon, Tsang Wai Kwok Richard, Siu Lun Wong, Yiu Cheong...Shuang Song, Wei Qing Tian, Wei Kong Henky Tsang, Kaising Yung, Peng Zhang DEGREE OF BACHELOR...
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University Results 2004: COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), November 16, 2004
...Jing Chen, Rati Dubal, Hong Hua, Alexander Giuseppe Jevremovic, Pi-Yun Liu, Panagiota Pandelidou, Eirene Droso Papazisi, Ju-Hsuan Shih, Yunyi Tang, Hiu Tung Wai, Meng Wang, Qing Wang, Min-Chun Weng, Hsiao-Chi Yang. Postgraduate Certificate in Media Arts...


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HsÜan-Tsang
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HSUAN-TSANG shuan-dzang, 605? 664, Chinese Buddhist scholar and translator. He early entered monastic life and later traveled in China...
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Bamian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...between India and central Asia. By the 7th cent. the town was a center of Buddhism; the Chinese pilgrims Fa Hsien and Hsuan-tsang traveled through the town. Bamian was invaded by the Saffarids in 871. A Muslim fortress town from the 9th to the...
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Taxila
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...overrun (c.1st 2d cent. a.d.) by the Kushans. It was a center of Buddhist studies and was visited in the 7th cent. by Hsuan-tsang . There are remains of Buddhist stupas and monasteries as well as sculpture of the Gandharan school of art...
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Multan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...period. The city was conquered (c.326 b.c.) by Alexander the Great , visited (a.d. 641) by the Chinese Buddhist scholar Hsuan-tsang, taken (8th cent.) by the Arabs, and captured by Muslim Turkish conqueror Mahmud of Ghazna in 1005 and by Timur...
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Harsha , Indian Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...flowery work by Bana, the court poet, and in the Si-yu-ki records of the Western world written by the Chinese pilgrim Hsuan-tsang. After Harshas death, N India relapsed into anarchy. See R. K. Mookerji, Harsha (1926); studies by D. Devahuti...
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