# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xuanzang
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:29.115Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 602 near Luoyang, Xuanzang became a novice monk at thirteen and fled south with his brother during the Sui collapse, ordained fully at twenty. Troubled by the fragmentary Buddhist scriptures circulating in China and the contradictions among competing translations, he resolved at twenty-seven to go to the source. In 629 he slipped past the empire's border restrictions and made his way through Central Asia to India, studying for years at Nalanda under the monk Śīlabhadra. He returned in 645 with 657 Sanskrit texts loaded on twenty horses; Emperor Taizong welcomed him home and commissioned a travelogue. Xuanzang managed to translate seventy-five sections — 1,335 chapters of the most important Mahayana works — before his death in 664. His travel account, the Records of the Western Regions, became a key record of seventh-century India and Central Asia, and nine centuries later inspired Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West.