Note 645 — Chapter XLIII
Reading edition
This name has been transliterated in an extraordinary number of ways. See B.E.F.E.O. 1905, pp. 424-430. Giles gives Hsüan Chuang in his Chinese Dictionary, but Hsüan Tsang in his Biographical Dictionary. Probably the latter is more correct. Not only is the pronunciation of the characters variable, but the character was tabooed as being part of the Emperor K'ang Hsi's personal name and substituted for it. Hence the spelling Yüan Chuang.
