Figure Buddhist traditions
Xuanzang
ཞོན་ཙང་། bo 唐三藏 zh
Central character in the novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en
- Child of Chen Guangrui and Yin Wenjiao
- Traditionally from 7th century CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Family
The family of Xuanzang
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 2
Kinship in an account 2
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Xuanzang central character in the novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en Later works
Later works that name Xuanzang
Written in 1500 CE or later, and not religious texts: works that retell or borrow the figure, not sources for the life.
What this means
Sorted out of the texts by each work’s own recorded date on the source clock, and by its record not marking it as a religious text: the split is worked out here, not stated by any source. A religious text of any date stays among the texts.
Also in films, games and series: A Chinese Odyssey, A Chinese Odyssey Part Three, A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella, Journey to the West, Journey to the West Afterstory, Journey to the West II, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, Monkey, Pigsy Eats Watermelon, The Monkey King 2, The Monkey King 3, The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra, The New Legends of Monkey, Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West, Wu Kong
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
22 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 19 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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