Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim

by Benjamin Brose

Xuanzang (600/602-664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmission and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his training of a generation of masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Xuanzang's life and legacy are the stuff of legend. In the centuries after his death, stories of his epic adventures and extraordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824895657
• ISBN13: 9780824895655
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"