Xuanzang

Wade-Giles romanization  Hsüan-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