Xuanzang

Wade-Giles romanization �Hs�an-tsang�, original name �Chen Yi�, honorary epithet �San-tsang�, also called �Muchatipo�, Sanskrit �Mokshadeva�, or �Yuanzang� Buddhist monk and Chinese pilgrim to India who translated the sacred scriptures of Buddhism from Sanskrit into Chinese and founded in China the Buddhist Consciousness Only school. His fame rests mainly on the volume and diversity of his translations of the Buddhist sutras and on the record