This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The human skeletons were piled up like signposts in the sand. For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A ...

It was built in 669 during the Tang Dynasty to bury Buddhist priest ... it is a fairly big tomb pagoda, since Xuanzang was an eminent monk in the Tang Dynasty. The pedestal is very low.

it is widely accepted to be based on folk tales and oral accounts of a 16-year trip to India undertaken by Xuanzang (602-664), a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar, during the Tang dynasty.

A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern ...

The associate professor said we're lucky India didn't have industrial landscape changes before the 80s. It’s why the images ...

It is loosely based on Buddhist monk Xuanzang (602-664) and his pilgrimage to India. Wu's novel features Xuanzang and his disciples possessing magical talents. The story follows their encounters ...

including a Buddhist monk. New York City fire officials say the fire broke out around 6 a.m. Wednesday in the Bronx. Two Cleveland Water employees hurt in crash “We had fire throughout two ...

FDNY firefighters respond to a deadly fire at a Buddhist temple in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (WABC-TV via AP) ...

It is regarded as one of the greatest ancient Chinese classics. The story is about a Chinese Buddhist monk named Xuanzang, who travels to India in the 7th century to seek out and collect Buddhist ...

and to copy valuable Buddhist manuscripts. Fifty-six Chinese and Korean monks visited India; during the span of forty years between the visits of Xuanzang and Yijing, many of them visited Nalanda.