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Faxian Summary
1,266 words, approx. 4 pages 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
604 words, approx. 2 pages 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
1,588 words, approx. 5 pages 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
1,162 words, approx. 4 pages
 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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