Retracing Xuanzang: A Journey Through Time

Sally Hovey Wriggins, Zhihong Wang, Xuanzang

Dust in the Wind is a beautiful 2006 book published by a Taiwanese magazine.

The editors in 1987 sent 5 teams of reporters and photographers to retrace the route taken by a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, Xuanzang who left Changan (now Xian) on a 19-year journey to seek true Buddhist scriptures from India.

The teams spent 5 years on the route taking more than 20,000 photos.

This coffee table book contains 600 of those photos accompanied by a text on the places that were visited by Xuanzang.

The places journeyed included Hami, Turpan, Central Asia towns like Samarkand, Bamiyan where the renowned Bamiyan Buddhas were later destroyed by the fanatical Taliban in 2001, Lahore, Karachi, Kashmir, Ajanta Caves, Bodhgaya, where the Buddha reached enlightenment, Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha.

Name the 2 famous books that were written of this journey.

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