ABSTRACT
53 https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780429267949/a7894cf8-f1be-4da6-a5b8-25af3ccb2a6d/content/inline4.tif"/> When Xuanzang finally reached the neighborhood of Langham, near Jalalabad, he felt, as Alexander the Great had, nine centuries earlier, that he had entered a new world. Alexander offered sacrifices to Athena to inaugurate his new enterprise, and after the division of his army, he began his new campaign. At that point also Xuanzang paused in the detailed narrative of his journey to take an overview of Indian civilization. Evidently, Xuanzang, like Alexander, must have been aware of having reached the gate of a kind of promised land. 1
