Person602–664
Xuanzang
Chinese Buddhist monk who in 629–645 travelled through Central Asia to India, studied at Nalanda and brought back more than 650 texts; his Great Tang Records on the Western Regions describes the lands he saw.
- Dates
- 602 – between 7 March and 8 March 664
- Events
- 2 events
- Regions
- Central and Northern Asia, East Asia
- In the threads
- Central Asia and the steppe (6th–10th c.), East Asia (6th–10th c.)
Events
- The Western Turkic Khaganate: the “ten arrows” from the Altai to the Oxus603 – between 657 and 658 · Central and Northern Asia
- Xuanzang’s journey to India629 – 8 February 645 · East Asia