In order to explore the differences between different schools of Buddhism, Xuanzang traveled 50,000 miles to the west in the first year of Zhenguan, and went through hardships to the Nalanduo Temple in the center of Indian Buddhism to get the true scriptures. He studied various theories of Mahayana and Mahayana at that time for seventeen years.
When Xuanzang returned in 645 AD, he brought back 50 Buddhist relics/kloc-0, 7 Buddha statues and 657 Buddhist scriptures, and he worked in the translation of Buddhist scriptures for a long time. Xuanzang and his disciples translated 75 classics.
His translated works include Mahaprajna Sutra, Heart Sutra, Shen Jiemi Sutra, Yoga Teacher's Theory of Land, Consciousness Theory and so on. Twelve volumes of the Western Regions of Datang.
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The announcement of prizes has made many contributions to the development of China culture, among which the greatest contribution is his translation of Buddhist classics.
In the 19th year of Tang Zhenguan, Xuanzang returned from India at the age of 46. In the next 20 years, he devoted all his efforts and wisdom to classic translation.
In Chang 'an and Luoyang, with the help of his assistant, Xuanzang translated 74 Buddhist scriptures, 1.335 volumes, each of which was about 10000 words, totaling 1.335 words.
It accounts for more than half of the total number of translated classics in the whole Tang Dynasty, which is equivalent to more than twice the total number of translated classics by the other three major translators in the history of China. It has greatly surpassed its predecessors in quality and become an outstanding model in the history of translation.
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