On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.s3.14
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c26.s3.14
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v2.c26.s3.14
He must have proceeded next by the road skirting the base of the Altyn Tāgh Range, from which turning northwards, he reached Sha-chau (Sha-chow, Sachu). Presumably he must have journeyed onward to the Yu-mēn barrier, through which he had made his escape when furtively quitting China sixteen years before, and thence must have travelled by the ordinary road through Liang-chau to the western capital Ch'ang-an (Hsian or Si-ngan-fu), where he arrived ‘in the spring’ of 645 A. D., probably at some time in the month of April.