In 646 ad, under the Emperor's request, Xuanzang completed his book "Journey to the West in the Great Tang Dynasty" , which has become one of the primary sources for the study of medieval Central Asia and India . This book was first translated into French by the Sinologist Stanislas Julien in 1857 ad .
There was also a biography of Xuanzang written by the monk Huili . Both books were first translated into English by Samuel Beal, in 1884 ad and 1911 ad respectively . An English translation with copious notes by Thomas Watters was edited by T. S. Rhys Davids and S.W. Bushell, and published posthumously in London in 1905 ad . These books are however all seriously outdated and full of inaccuracies, and recent attempts are not much better.
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