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Klyashtorny S. [Review:] L. Ju. Tugusheva. The Uighur Version of the Life of Hsüan Tsang. Text Fragments from the Leningrad Collection of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences). Moscow: Nauka Publishing House 1991. – 591 pp. // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 1, No 2, October 1995. P. 68—69.
In the 4th century B.C. the Hellenistic world of the
Mediterranean discovered an unknown universe. before
that time deeply concealed in the heart of Asia. This universe
had already inherited in much degree the rich culture
of the Empire of Alexander the Great and of his successors.
The Inner Asia and Northern India, as well as the
Mediterranean lands, formed one common geopolitical
system with a vast communication net where regional cultures
influenced and enriched each other. In the
2nd century B.C. the Great Silk Road not only connected
many Eurasian states. but also formed the three super-civilizations
of Antiquity: the Mediterranean, the Serindian
and the Far Eastern. On the routes laid by trade caravans,
embassies and diplomatic missions, besides those
who pursued pragmatic aims of immediate benefit. some
very different persons had appeared. These were the missionaries
of the World-religions, undertaking long journeys
in search for truth and in order to spread their corresponding
religious doctrines. Buddhist pilgrims, who brought the
Teaching to the Han Empire, were the first among them.
China had never before been influenced so much by any
foreign culture. The immense success of Buddhism in
China, where it was easily accepted, even gave birth to a
conception regarding China and the Chinese state as
something being on the outskirts of the habitable world —
something quite contradictory to Chinese mentality as a
whole. India was accepted for the indisputable center of the
world, where the religious exploits of Buddha Shakyamuni
had taken place. This explains the great wish of those, who
devoted themselves to the Teaching of Buddha in China, to
visit India. It resulted from search for truth and self-perfection...
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