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 to the West, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.

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Pedro and Onil Castro made a daily pilgrimage from their home on Kinkel Street to the corner of West 32nd St. and Clark Avenue.

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Xuan Zang's pilgrimage to India for Buddhist scriptures in the 7th Century was the inspiration for the novel Journey to the West and popular television series Monkey.

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