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Sep 2020
27m 19s

Xuanzang, Chinese monk and traveller

Bbc Radio 4
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It was an extraordinary journey, and a life that reads like a fairy tale. Xuanzang was born at the start of the seventh century in China. He studied as a monk and travelled for 16 years - first westwards, and then in a crescent back and down over the Himalayas to India . He returned a famous man, laden with Buddhists texts and artefacts. Historian Michael Wo ... Show More
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