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  Xuanzang with Buddhist scriptures

 

China

Portrait of Xuanzang (fig.), the monk who went on a pilgrimage from Xi'an to India in order to obtain a copy of the sutras (fig.), bringing more than 600 texts back to China, which he translated on his return, until his death.

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