Chasing the monk's shadow: a journey in the footsteps of Xuanzang

Saran, Mishi (b.1968)

Fourteen hundred years later, the author follows in Xuanzang's footsteps to the fabled oasis cities of China and Central Asia, and the Buddhist sites and now-vanished kingdoms in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan that Xuanzang wrote about. Travelling seamlessly back and forth in time between the seventh and the twenty-first century, Saran uncovers the past with consummate skill even as she brings...

Publisher: Viking

USD 31.25

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