The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

La Croix columnist Yann Vagneux, a Paris Foreign Missions priest in India, reflects on his experiences at the Kumbh Mela ...

Xuanzang, who spent 16 years studying various parts of India, visited Prayagraj. In 644 CE, he praised the kingdom of the powerful king Harshavardhana, highlighting its abundance of grain.

It was built in 669 during the Tang Dynasty to bury Buddhist priest Xuanzang's remains. In 828 it was rebuilt as it is today. The five-storey brick pagoda has a square ground plan, with each side ...

Based on Xuanzang’s account, Nalanda Mahavihara had an observatory tower, which could have been used to track the movement of ...

Mahakumbh Mela, known as the world's largest human gathering, greatly influences local economies with significant visitor ...

Speaking at the launch William Dalrymple read from his book The Golden Road quoting the words of Hwui-li, the biographer of the Chinese monk Xuanzang about Nalanda --'there were thousands of Buddhist ...