• Xuanzang: The Monk Who Walked to India (English Edition) – A True Story of Danger, Faith & the Long Road
  • Xuanzang: The Monk Who Walked to India (English Edition) – A True Story of Danger, Faith & the Long Road
  • Xuanzang: The Monk Who Walked to India (English Edition) – A True Story of Danger, Faith & the Long Road
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Xuanzang: The Monk Who Walked to India (English Edition) – A True Story of Danger, Faith & the Long Road

Xuanzang: The Monk Who Walked to India (English Edition) – A True Story of Danger, Faith & the Long Road

The 16-Year Journey of a Tang Dynasty Monk Across Deserts, Snow Mountains and Bandit Territory to Reach India — Illustrated, Plain English, for Young Readers & Curious Adults
This is the true story of Xuanzang—a monk who left Tang dynasty China without permission and walked to India to find the original Buddhist scriptures. He crossed deserts where travelers died of thirst, climbed snow mountains, slipped past border guards, and talked his way out of bandit attacks. A king tried to make him stay; he refused. After years on the road, he reached Nalanda, the greatest Buddhist university of the age, and debated scholars there—and won. Written in plain English with illustrations, this book is made for young readers and adults who want a real adventure story, not a history lecture. If you want to know what it actually took to walk from China to India and back—rather than read an academic biography or a dense historical study—this is it.
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About This Book:
Xuanzang: The Monk Who Walked to India is a captivating biographical account of one of history's greatest travelers. In the 7th century, against the orders of the emperor, a determined Chinese monk named Xuanzang set out on an epic journey along the Silk Road to reach India—the birthplace of Buddhism-1.

His goal was simple yet monumental: to study original Buddhist texts and bring them back to China. This book chronicles his perilous quest, filled with thrilling tales of survival and determination-2.

Key Highlights & Stories:

  • Daring Escape: His illegal departure from China and the imperial hunt to bring him back-1-2.

  • Survival Against the Odds: Facing death in the scorching desert and treacherous snowy mountain passes-1-4.

  • Royal Encounters: Being honored and detained by powerful kings along the way, including a famous meeting with a Great Khan-1-2.

  • The Great Debate: His ultimate intellectual triumph at the renowned Nalanda University in India

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