The Silk Road Journey With Xuanzang
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:08 am
As regards the amazing (and visually lush), book,The Silk Road Journey With Xuanzang, I need some clarification.
On page 152 in the chapter number 8 on “philosophers, caves and the fortuneteller”, I am told that Xuanzang returned to Nalanda monastery in 642 for a 2nd visit there. He only stayed a brief time before going on to study with a philosopher for 2 months and then his mentor* according to “Buddhist phenomenology” for 2 years before, as you say on page 153, returning back to the monastery a 3rd time in 642.
Somehow 2 years and 2 months got talked into the middle of the year 642!
On page 155 we are told that he meets a fortuneteller at the end of the year 642, that recommends he returns to China.
I have been using The Silk Road Journey as a guide to reading Xuanzang, 1997. The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions, Numata Center.
Please advise!
Leo
* I am VERY interested in SHENG CHUN aka JayaSENA/PraSENAjit! ----> he seems like a Key to me.
On page 152 in the chapter number 8 on “philosophers, caves and the fortuneteller”, I am told that Xuanzang returned to Nalanda monastery in 642 for a 2nd visit there. He only stayed a brief time before going on to study with a philosopher for 2 months and then his mentor* according to “Buddhist phenomenology” for 2 years before, as you say on page 153, returning back to the monastery a 3rd time in 642.
Somehow 2 years and 2 months got talked into the middle of the year 642!
On page 155 we are told that he meets a fortuneteller at the end of the year 642, that recommends he returns to China.
I have been using The Silk Road Journey as a guide to reading Xuanzang, 1997. The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions, Numata Center.
Please advise!
Leo
* I am VERY interested in SHENG CHUN aka JayaSENA/PraSENAjit! ----> he seems like a Key to me.