Pilgrimage accounts

14th century Muslim Maghrebi scholar and explorer

one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

Xuanzang (; ; 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making contributions to Chinese Buddhism, the travelogue of his journey to the Indian subcontinent in 629–645, his efforts to bring at least 657 Indian texts to China, and his translations of some of these texts. He was only able to translate 75 distinct sections of a total of 1,335 chapters, but his translations included some of the most important Mahayana scriptures.

Faxian (337–), formerly romanized as Fa-hien , Fa-hsien, and Hiuen Tsang was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled on foot from Jin China to medieval India to acquire Buddhist scriptures. His birth name was Gong Sehi. Starting his journey about age 60, he traveled west along the overland Silk Road, visiting Buddhist sites in Central, South, and Southeast Asia. The journey and return took from 399 to 412, with 10 years spent in India.

Jewish explorer and writer

(635–713), Chinese Buddhist monk, traveler, and writer

Western Roman Christian woman, widely regarded to be the author of a detailed account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land about 381/2–384

novel by Paulo Coelho

pilgrimage route in Rome

4th-century account of a pilgrimage from Bordeaux to the Holy Land

Grand Marshal of Lithuanian (1549-1616)

Czech rabbi

Ukrainian explorer

saint of the Christian Church

travelogue in Classical Chinese by Korean Buddhist monk Hyecho, who traveled from Korea to India in 723 – 728 CE; lost but recovered in the Dunhuang manuscripts

'''Hyech'o''' (; ; 704–787), was a Silla Buddhist monk and traveller active during Korea's Three Kingdoms period. He is primarily remembered for his account of his travels in medieval India, the .

German theologian and orientalist (1551-1622)

Dutch artist (1445–1505)

book by Ennin

unidentified Christian pilgrim

English writer and academic

lord of Caumont, Castelnau, Castelculier and Berbiguières, has left written accounts of his pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem, and a book for his children

thumb|Illuminated manuscript depicting city map of Jerusalem under Crusader control, 1200s. Sæwulf ( ; 1102 – 1103) was probably the first English (Anglo-Saxon) pilgrim to Jerusalem following its conquest in the First Crusade. His Latin written account of his pilgrimage, Relatio de situ Ierusalem , tells of an arduous and dangerous journey; and Sæwulf's descriptive narrative provides scholars brief but significant insight into sea travel across the Mediterranean to the new Kingdom of Jerusalem that was established soon after the end of the First Crusade.

Dharmasvamin (Chag Lo-tsa-ba Chos-rje-dpal; 1197–1264) was a Tibetan monk and pilgrim who travelled to Nepal and Magadha between 1234 and 1236. The main source on his life is his biography which was composed by Upasaka Chos-dar and provides an eyewitness account of the times. Dharmasvamin's accounts are important for reconstructing the continued operation of Nalanda after it was sacked in 1193 CE.

Chinese Buddhist monk and pilgrim under the Tang dynasty

ninth-century Frankish monk

Franciscan

Irish Franciscan author

essay by Adomnán