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Faxian Summary
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FAXIAN (fl. 399–418), Chinese Buddhist monk, translator, and the earliest successful Chinese Buddhist pilgrim to India. Faxian's family name was Gong; he was born in Wuyang in Pingyang Prefecture (in Shanxi province). After being fully...
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Fa-Hsien Summary
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c. 334-c. 422 Chinese Pilgrim At the beginning of the fifth century A.D., the Buddhist monk Fa-hsien undertook a heroic journey around China's western periphery to India, where he gathered texts sacred to his religion. These writings would later...
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Fa-Hsien Travels Around the Outskirts of China, to India and the East Indies Summary
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When he was 65 years old, the monk Fa-hsien resolved to travel from northern China to India, homeland of the Buddhist faith. The result was a journey of some 10,000 miles, or 16,000 kilometers, across China, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and...
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Faxian Information
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Faxian (Traditional Chinese:法顯; Simplified Chinese:法显 Pinyin:Fǎxiǎn); also romanized as Fa-Hien or Fa-hsien) (ca. 337 - ca. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to Nepal, India and Sri Lanka to acquire and take back to China...


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China Review International
Sun Hongkai [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], editor. Zhongguo xin faxian yuyan yanjiu congshu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].(Book review)
09/22/2006: 5,146 words, approx. 17 pages
Sun Hongkai [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], editor. Zhongguo xin faxian yuyan yanjiu congshu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [New Found Minority Languages in China Series], 31 Volumes. Beijing [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]....


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