Xuan Zang's pilgrimage to India for Buddhist scriptures in the 7th Century was the inspiration for the novel Journey to theWest and popular television series Monkey.
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 theWest, who went on a 16-year pilgrimage to India.