Xuanzang

faith more fully, and to bring original Buddhist texts back to China. Using both primary and secondary sources, as well as relying on her own observations made while following Xuanzang’s route, Wriggins creates an historical and fantastical picture of Xuanzang’s expedition. Wriggins’s Xuanzang is an excellent introductory source to the history of the Silk Road.
In centering her story on the primary sources of Xuanzang’s own written record of his trip and that of his biographer Huili, Wriggins can rely on factual details of the caravan’s trip, rather than...