| "Back at our starting point, Xian,we visited the Xing Jiao Si, the Temple
Where Teaching Fourishes, built five years after Hsuan Tsang's death to
house his ashes. We pushed insense sticks into the ash of a stone urn and
lit them. Zhongmei took a picture of me in front of the pagoda which marks
the monk's burial place. 'The garden was a peaceful place. I didn't want
to leave it. I clung to this last tranquil remnant of my journey on the
Road of Great Events. But we had reservations on the plane for Beijing that
afternoon.' "
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