In 1980, the late Sheikh Mohammed Ali Harakan, then secretary-general of the Muslim World League, came to Taiwan. When visiting the Xuan Zang Pagoda in Sun Moon Lake, he was told that Buddhism entered China only 30 years earlier than Islam, and that its later sweeping success in China was due in no small part to the monk Xuan Zang bringing back sacred texts from India and translating them into Chinese.
前回盟理事長哈爾康在一九八○年訪華時，曾到過日月潭，參觀玄奘塔時，當時陪同人士告訴他佛教傳入中國，只比回教早三十年，後來傳播得如此深廣，玄奘西去取經功不可沒。