[Buddha-l] In the footsteps of Xuan Zhang

[Dan Lusthaus]

I should add the reminder that he couldn't take a large entrourage, nor do
anything overt or official, since at that time the Emperor had refused to
allow ANY travel outside China, and had turned down Xuanzang's request. Some
of Xuanzang's difficulties in the early stages of the journey, in fact until
he reached to frontiers. were due to trying to avoid detection by the
authorities, who were apparently in pursiut of his party.

Dan Lusthaus