The Journeyto the West, one ofthefourChinese literature classics, tellsthestory of Xuan Zang, a monk in theTang Dynasty, traveling toancientIndiafor Buddhist scriptures.
One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey totheWest, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.