• Huen Tsang was a Chinese traveler who stayed in India for 15 years and visited different places of India.
• He was born in 629 A.D.
• Of the 15 years of his stay in India, he spent 5 years at Nalanda Vidhyapith studying Buddhism.
• During his stay, he described the social, political and religious conditions of India elaborately in his dairy.
• He was a part of the 6th Buddha religious congregation held by King Harshvardhana at Prayag.
• Since Huen Tsang visited India during the reign of King Harshvardhana, he made lots of notes about the King and his subjects.
• Today, we know a lot of King Harsha only because of the diaries maintained by Huen Tsang.
• In 645 A.D., Tsang went back to China.
• He carried many books, remnants and statues with him.
• However, he died in the same year.

Two important notes from the diary of Huen Tsang are:

I. There were 100 Buddhist mathas in the state of King Harshvardhana.

II. The people in the reign of King Harshvardhana lived a simple and pious life. They had high moral standards. They believed in truth and justice. The people considered cheating and breaching as a sin.