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Xuanzang

7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar (602–664)

9 dated entries naming Xuanzang, drawn from 9 separate years between 602 CE and 664 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 602Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler (d. 664)source
  • 622Xuanzang is fully ordained as a Buddhist monk at the age of 20.source
  • 629Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, sets out for India from the Tang dynasty capital Chang'an on a pilgrimage.source
  • 630Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), travels across the Gobi Desert to Kumul. Following the Tian Shan mountain range of Central Asia westwards, he arrives in Turpan.source
  • 631Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, crosses the Indus River at Hund and travels to Kashmir ("Heaven on Earth") in northwestern India (approximate date).source
  • 632Xuanzang, Chinese traveler, writes about two huge statues of Buddha carved out of a mountainside in the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan).source
  • 645Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, returns to China after a 16-year pilgrimage to India. He is greeted with much honor by Emperor Taizong.source
  • 646Xuanzang completes his book Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, which later becomes one of the primary sources for the study of medieval Central Asia and India.source
  • 664Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk and travelersource

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