Sanskrit transliteration name: Mahayana God (Latin letter: Mahāyānadeva), Tang Yan Chinese: Mahayana.
Maha (Da) Ye Naje Na (Cheng) Shen Shen (Tian)
The world knows Master Sanzang, commonly known as Tang Priest. Monks, Buddhists and Travellers in the Tang Dynasty, together with Kumarajiva and Zhen Zhen, were called the three great translators of Buddhism in China, and one of the founders of only knowing Sect. After becoming a monk, I visited famous Buddhist teachers all over the world. I decided to study Buddhism in Tianzhu because I felt that the theories of various factions were different and it was difficult to draw a conclusion. In the third year of Zhenguan (AD 629, the first year of Zhenguan), Emperor Taizong left Liangzhou westbound for Yumenguan and went through all the difficulties to reach Tianzhu. I first learned it from Jiexian in Nalanduo Temple. Later, he traveled to Tianzhu to talk with local scholars and became famous. Seventeen years later, in the 19th year of Zhenguan (A.D. 645), he returned to Chang 'an, organized the translation of classics, and translated 75 classics and works, with a volume of 1335. The translated Buddhist scriptures are often translated word for word and meticulously, enriching the ancient culture of the motherland and preserving precious classics for ancient Indian Buddhism, which is called "new translation" internationally. He compiled The Theory of Knowing Only by Success, holding that "I" (subject) and "Fa" are only the realization of "knowledge" and are not real. Only by breaking away from "self-adherence" and "law-adherence" can we achieve the realm of "becoming a Buddha". He also wrote The Western Regions of Datang, which is an important material for studying the ancient history and geography of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Central Asia. His stories, such as Wu Changling's "Journey to the West in Tang Sanzang" in Yuan Dynasty and Wu Cheng'en's The Journey to the West novels in Ming Dynasty, were widely circulated among the people in past dynasties, all of which originated from his deeds.