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Xuanzang (Chinese: 玄奘; pinyin: Xuán Zàng; Wade-Giles: Hsüan-tsang, pronounced Shwan-dzang) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator that brought up the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period.
He became famous for his seventeen year overland trip to India and back, which is recorded in detail in his autobiography and a biography.
He is very famous in India as is Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller.
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In recent years, a mural on the wall of a mountain pass on the way to the China/India border was discovered that is purported to show the real Xuanzang flanked by a small hairy man that some scholars have theorized might have been the inspiration for the character of the Monkey King
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Looks like Tankie was on the trip as well
