Buddhism Scholars

Xuanzang | Traveller
Xuanzang statue | Wild Goose Pagoda

Xuanzang (fl. 602 – 664), also known as Hsüan-tsang, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making contributions to Chinese Buddhism, the travelogue of his journey to India in 629–645, his efforts to bring over 657 Indian texts to China, and his translations of some of these texts. Author of Great Tang Records on the Western Regions

Faxian travels
Faxian travels statue

Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, translator, and the earliest successful Chinese Buddhist pilgrim to India. After being fully ordained at the age of 20, Faxian recognized that the Buddhist monastic rules (the Vinaya) available in China at the time were incomplete and confused and thus vowed to journey to India to search for Vinaya texts. A party of 5 monks

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