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Download Solution PDFThe Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, Xuan Zang, came to the Indian subcontinent about years ago.
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is 1400.Key Points
- The Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, Xuan Zang, came to the Indian subcontinent about 1400 years ago.
- A Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator who travelled to India in the seventh century.
- He described the interaction between Chinese Buddhism and Indian Buddhism during the early Tang dynasty.
- The primary aim of the visit of Hiuen Tsang to India was to gain knowledge of Buddhism and collect its religious texts.
- As he did not get the permission of the Chinese emperor to visit India, he slipped away from there in 629 A.D.
- He remained at the University of Nalanda for about five years.
- He also participated in one of the religious assemblies called by Harsha at Prayag.
- He became famous for his seventeen-year overland journey to India.
- He visited India during the reign of Harshavardhan who came to admire him for his deep devotion to Buddhism.
Additional Information
Other Foreign Travellers to India:
| Traveller | Reign of: |
| Deimachos | Bindusara |
| Megasthenes | Chandragupta Maurya |
| Fa-Hien | Chandragupta II |
| Ibn Batuta | Muhammad-Bin-Tughlaq |
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