The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s6.31

c13.s6.31

Emperor Harṣavardhana's (606-647) Chinese contemporary was the Tang Napoleon Tai-tsung (627-650); and the contact between the two was established by Yuan-Chwang, the Max Müller of those days (the exponent and popularizer of Hindu culture), who visited India in 629 and returned to his native country in 645. The travels of Itsing, another great Chinese scholar-saint, perhaps more learned than Yuan-Chwang the "organizer", and Fa Hien the devotee or man of *bhakti* (faith), were also undertaken (671-695) under the Tangs (618-905). The seventh and eighth centuries witnessed the Indianization of Chinese culture on a magnificent scale such as had not been attempted before.