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by Sally Wriggins

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Sally Wriggins

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0813328012

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Westview Press (April 12, 1996)

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Sally Hovey Wriggins was the first Westerner and first woman to walk extensively in the footsteps of Xuanzang. By all means read this book if you are interested in the history of the Silk Road. However there is a significant omission in this book.

Sally Hovey Wriggins was the first Westerner and first woman to walk extensively in the footsteps of Xuanzang. Having lived and traveled in Asia for several years based out of Sri Lanka, she also studied with the Venerable Kheminda Thero. She is a regular contributor to Archeology and Orientations By all means read this book if you are interested in the history of the Silk Road. Xuanzang embarked on this epic journey because he wanted to learn Buddhism from the original source. But if you think you'll be able to learn much about 7th century Buddhism from this book, think again.

Home Browse Books Book details, Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. Several aspects of Wriggins's technique in writing this book deserve special mention

Home Browse Books Book details, Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins. Sally Hovey Wriggins retells the story of Xuanzang, the 7th century Chinese monk who completed an epic 16-year journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Several aspects of Wriggins's technique in writing this book deserve special mention.

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Buddhism entered Han China via the Silk Road, beginning in the 1st or 2nd century CE. The first documented translation efforts by Buddhist monks in China were in the 2nd century CE via the Kushan Empire into the Chinese territory of the Tarim Basin . . The first documented translation efforts by Buddhist monks in China were in the 2nd century CE via the Kushan Empire into the Chinese territory of the Tarim Basin under Kanishka. These contacts transmitted strands of Sarvastivadan and Tamrashatiya Buddhism throughout the Eastern world.

Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. Together these books provide the main threads from which Sally Wriggins has woven an engaging tapestry of one of the world’s great journeys. Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road Sally Hovey Wriggins Westview Press: Boulder, Colorado, 1996. In addition to extracting the most important episodes from the multivolume works of Xuanzang and Huili, Wriggins has added the insights of modern art historians and archaeologists as well as her own knowledge gained from having visited most of the sites about which she writes.

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Sally Hovey Wriggins, Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, p. 6. oogle Scholar. Pichikian, The Hellenistic Architecture and Art of the Temple of the Oxus, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, new series, 8 (1994), pp. 47–66; Harmatta, Religions in the Kushan Empire, p. 31. For an engaging book-length treatment see Sally Hovey Wriggins, Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 61. For reasons that are not clear, local Muslim governors did occasionally permit Buddhist missions to transit their territories in Central Asia.

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The saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, who completed an epic sixteen-year journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India, is a splendid story of human struggle and triumph. One of China's great heroes, Xuanzang is introduced here for the first time to Western readers in this richly illustrated book.Sally Hovey Wriggins, who journeyed in Xuanzang's footsteps, brings to life a man who transcended common experience. Eight centuries before Columbus, this intrepid pilgrim - against the wishes of his emperor - traveled on the Silk Road through Central Asia on his way to India. Before his journey ended, he had met most of Asia's important leaders and traversed 10,000 miles in search of Buddhist scriptures. He was a mountain climber who scaled three of Asia's highest mountain ranges and a desert survivor who nearly died of thirst on the brutal flats; a philosopher and metaphysician; a diplomat who established China's ties to Central Asian and Indian kings; and above all a devout and courageous Buddhist who personally nurtured the growth of Buddhism in China by disseminating the nearly 600 scriptures he carried back from India.Wriggins gives us vivid descriptions of the perils Xuanzang faced, the monasteries he visited (many still standing today), and the eight places of Buddhist pilgrimage in India. Detailed maps and color photographs provide striking evidence of the vast distances involved and the appalling dangers Xuanzang endured; reproductions of Buddhist art from museums around the world capture the glories of this world religion while revealing a cosmopolitan era in which pilgrims were both adventurers and ambassadors of goodwill.

JoJolar

This book is amazing! It recounts a famous Buddhist monk from China who travels all the way to India to learn more about Buddhism and bring a deeper understanding of the tradition back to his homeland. So inspirational!!

Goltikree

excellent book, item as described

Blackworm

By all means read this book if you are interested in the history of the Silk Road.

However there is a significant omission in this book. Xuanzang embarked on this epic journey because he wanted to learn Buddhism from the original source. But if you think you'll be able to learn much about 7th century Buddhism from this book, think again. Of course there are tid-bits and small blurbs about Buddhist ideas but it is more an expedient to advance the story rather than an effort to explain. This book is basically a travelogue, not a book of ideas.

Of course researching the various schools and thoughts of 7th century Buddhism would have been difficult and explaining it to the layperson without being confusing or boring would have also been difficult. But still I feel that writing a book on Xuanzang without attempting to explain the Buddhism of that era is incomplete.

Despite the above reservation, I still give it 4 stars because the rest of the book is quite well done.

lubov

A great book on a great historical figure in Chinese buddhism.

SoSok

Since the destruction of the famous Buddhas at Bamiyan, Afghanistan in March 2001, the importance of this book has rocketted from its original publication.
Xuanzang wrote some eyewitness accounts of these gigantic statues around 630AD, and this book is an important starting point to finding out more about these monuments and what they originally looked like.
This is not an academic book but more a detailed compilation of events connected with a personage with whom the author has obviously felt a close connection. The text is well sectioned with good maps and useful information, notes and an extensive bibliography that makes the work substantive (e.g., it highlights the wider territory of ostriches in the past). Xuanzang becomes a portal through which we view the art and history of a predominantly Buddhist India before she entered a chaotic phase to re-emerge as a Mughal and Hindu civilisation later.
There is staggering insight into the mentality of the Chinese and Kings at the time and the art they bestowed on the world. The importance of the Chinese civilisation is highlighted at a time when Europe was in the grip of the dark ages.
The book contains minor errors, could have been more critical and Xuanzang's feet on the cover need alteration. Leaving this aside, there is a stunning picture from Bamiyan and we can see what was lost as well as related paintings and statues which are quite exquisite (at least one of them lost from the Kabul museum since the destructive episode recently).
A book worth treasuring as written by a professional, well travelled and strong minded author (and she found the time).

Djang

Among the educated of the half of the planet that lives in China and India, the name of Xuan-Zang is very well known. The records of his journey from China through India and back provide a great deal of insight into the culture along his route at the time, as well as the state of Buddhism. The texts he brought back had a strong influence on the development of Buddhism in China. This is an excellent book. I visited many of the Buddhist sites in India and found Xuan-Zang's descriptions to still be of use to the pilgrim today. If you're interested in the history of the silk road and central asia, this book will be of use to you also.

Benn

It worked well enough for my paper.

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