Class 4 Session A  The Journey Home April 4

Core Readings:

The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang, Wriggins pp 159 to 180

The Princess in the Tower (a legend from Xuanzang’s Record of the  Western Regions)   4 pages


Recommended but not Required:

Ruins of Desert Cathay Vol I,  Ch IX pp. 89 to 94,  tells Stein’s version of story of the princess in the tower.     https://archive.org/details/ruinsofdesertcat01stei/page/88   

Video:

YouTube:   Silk Road II, 1 of 18:  Across the Pamirs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqIp9ARVIg

This video gives a clear view of the Pamir landscape Xuanzang and Stein travelled at the same point in their journeys.