"It's a historic moment, as far as India is concerned... we have started our journey to the Moon and the first leg of the journey has gone perfectly well," said Nair.

他说：“对印度来说，这是历史性的一刻。”我们已经开始月球之旅，而旅程的第一步骤走得都很完美。

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The Journey to the West, one of the four Chinese literature classics, tells the story of Xuan Zang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, traveling to ancient India for Buddhist scriptures.

中国四大名著之一《西游记》讲的就是唐朝僧人玄奘到古代印度取经的故事。

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It's a privilege for India to find you and your administration as deeply invested in ensuring that India makes a success of its historic journey to have the social and economic transformation carried out in the framework of an open society, a democratic polity, committed to the rule of law, and respect for full human freedoms.

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The publication of his book Autobiography of a Sadhu: A Journey into Mystic India, later added to the mystery.

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One of them, the Hsuan Tsang Temple, houses the remains of the great itinerant monk Hsuan Tsang, immortalized in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.

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