The Ultimate Journey
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The New York Times best book of the year, Retracing the Road of Xuanzang, from China to India, an American journalist records a thousand-year journey through Central Asia. In 629 AD, Xuanzang's journey across icebergs and scorching deserts along the world's most important trade, conquest, and ideological route for thousands of years was an "ultimate journey" in search of the true meaning of Buddhism. More than 1,300 years later, the American sinologist Richard Bernstein did everything possible to follow Xuanzang's footsteps westward. Starting from Xi'an, it passes through the Silk Road oasis, climbs steep mountain passes, passes through Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, arrives in India, and then turns back to China. Xuanzang's journey to the west was to solve the fundamental doubts of "hesitating while holding the scroll and holding the sutra"; Bernstein also tried to solve his own confusion, his Jewish identity, the crisis of middle age, the loneliness in silence... Dialogue with Xuanzang and history, he re-recognized and discovered himself.
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