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Sally hovey wriggins biography

          Sally Hovey Wrigginsis a writer and lecturer who has lived in Sri Lanka twice, most recently as the wife of the American ambassador.

        1. Sally Hovey Wrigginsis a writer and lecturer who has lived in Sri Lanka twice, most recently as the wife of the American ambassador.
        2. In this revised and updated edition, Sally Hovey Wriggins, the first Westerner to walk in Xuanzang's footsteps, brings to life a courageous explorer and.
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          Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road

          Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road
          Sally Hovey Wriggins
          Westview Press: Boulder, Colorado, 1996.
          292 pp., $32.50 (cloth).

          The life of Xuanzang (Huan-tsang) is one of the ancient world’s great tales.

          In the seventh century, this intrepid Buddhist monk journeyed more than ten thousand miles from China to India and back again over some of the world’s most unforgiving terrain. The journey alone would have been sufficient to assure Xuanzang of membership in the select group of great travelers that would some day include Marco Polo and Columbus.

          But Xuanzang was much more than a traveler with a distant destination; he was a pilgrim, and it is this aspect of his journey that has elevated his travels to the realm of legend and fable.

          As many great monks before him, Xuanzang joined the Buddhist order as a young boy and spent his youth studying scriptures.

          Quick of mind, and with an uncanny memory, he studied text after text b