The Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi, Shaanxi Province was built by Xuanzang to preserve the scroll Buddha statue that Tianzhu brought back to Chang 'an through the Silk Road.
The Tang Priest went to the Buddhist Temple in Lei Yin in the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures. The location of Leiyin Temple is Tianzhu, which is today's India. Because ancient India was in the west of China, Tang Priest called China the land of the East, and the Tang Dynasty was called the Tang Dynasty because of its strong national strength.
Historical achievements
At the age of eighteen, Tang Priest became a monk and converted to Buddhism. He often studies Buddhist scriptures in the evening, and his understanding is extremely high. In his twenties, he was famous for China Buddhism and was deeply loved by Emperor Taizong. Later, he was secretly selected by the Tathagata, went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, and got the three treasures, namely the cassock, the nine rings and the hooping spell.
Tang Priest is tall and elegant, kind-hearted, and highly accomplished in Buddhist scriptures. In the novel, he encountered eighty-one difficulties in learning from the West, but he never changed his original intention. With the help of the Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai, 35 scriptures were finally retrieved from western Buddhist temples, which made great contributions to the promotion of Buddhism. Until 2 1 century, he was still talked about by people and never forgot his historical achievements.