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Hsuan-Tsang (Xuanzang/Hiuen Tsang) was a world-famous Chinese Budhdist Monk, traveler and scholar whose recorded accounts of India during his sixteen years long visit to the country is still considered as the greatest account of 7th century Indian history by any foreign traveler. His travel in India also included Kamrupa (then Assam) and his detailed and auhtentic writings about the region gave the first base to the Assam's factual history.

Hsuan-Tsang was born in 602 AD in China to a scholastic family. He obtained Budhdhist Monk at young age dreamed of travelling to India, a country where Buddhism was born and still the greatest learning place of buddhism.

XUANZANG IN INDIA (630-645) | Facts and Details

After an extremely rigorous and dreadful journey, Hiuen Tsang, put his first foot steps in Indian in 630 AD. Tsang visited almost all important buddhists piligrimage in India and also learned more about the religion in the famous Nalanda University.

Assam, then known as Kamrupa, was ruled by the great king Kumar HSUAN TSANG (var.

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