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Luoyang and the Silk Road (2)

(CRI Online)

13:27, August 01, 2013

The Luoyang Silk Road Themed Park (CRIENGLISH.com)

Alongside the road to the east is the square of Governor in West Regions. In the beautiful day of winter, one can see the dreamlike, mysterious and stylish blue-domed corridor even from afar. Together with creamy walls and snow white pillars, the three features make for a fascinating scenic line which point tourists to an exotic destination.

The most eye-catching sight on the square of the Silk Road is a 24-meter-long, 4-meter-high Silhouette Wall displaying a Hu man riding a camel. With the sound of camel bells, there appears a trekking camel team on the Silk Road, in which a long-nosed man sits on a camel with a melancholy expression. This is what it looks like about the trade in the ancient times.

In the Square of the White Horse Carrying the Classics, tourists can see the gate of White Horse Temple standing solemnly on the square; opposite this, an Indian-style pagoda towers at a distance. They temple represents the White Horse that carried the Buddhist Classics from Remote India to the Capital Luoyang. In front of the mountain gate, a tame horse strides with a huge pile of classics on its back as if it had just come back from the West Regions.

At the very east side of Silk Road Park, we can find the last square---the Square of Xuan Zang's Journey to the West. After the introduction of Buddhism to China during the East Han Dynasty, different schools of Buddhism which were in great divergence appeared. Meanwhile, the Buddhism manuscripts were not complete. In order to solve these problems, Xuan Zang decided to travel west in search of the authentic Buddhism Classics to unite all the schools in China. Xuan Zang spent 17 years traveling on the Silk Road for a total distance of 25 thousand kilometers across hundreds of regions and states, enduring innumerable trials and hardships, before Xuan Zang finally attained the real Buddhism script to bring back to Chang'an. During the following 20 years, Xuan Zang has profoundly contributed to the transmission of Buddhism by translating more than 75 Buddhism Classic scripts.

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