Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s3.t3.3

v2.c10.s3.t3.3

The venerable Pilujia of the Western Heaven is reincarnated as a baby of lady Yin, the wife of Chen Guangrui, whose family is in difficulties and has to put the new-born baby into a box to drift along the Yangtze River. An old monk of the Jinshan Temple finds the baby, brings him up and gives him the name Xuanzang. He prays for rain in Chang’an and succeeds, and the Emperor thus grants him the title of ‘Tipitakacariya’, and orders him to go to Western