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Journey to the West

By Cheng-En Wu, William John Francis Jenner (Translator), Vincent Kelvin (Editor)
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By Cheng-En Wu, William John Francis Jenner (Translator), Vincent Kelvin (Editor)
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The novel is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the "Western Regions", that is, India, to obtain sacred texts and returned after many trials and much suffering. It retains the broad outline of Xuanzang's own account, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, but the Ming dynasty novel adds elements from folk tales and the author's invention, that is, that the Buddha gave this task to the monk and provided him with thre...

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