Faxian
Author of A Record of the Buddhist Countries
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- Canonical name
- Faxian
- Other names
- Fa-Hien
Fa-Hsien - Birthdate
- 337
- Date of death
- 422 (circa)
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- Buddhist monk
- Nationality
- China
- Birthplace
- Pingyang Wuyang (now Linfeng City, Shanxi), China
- Associated Place (for map)
- Shanxi), China
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Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot from China to India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts. His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Xian of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline. Antiquated transliterations of his show more name include Fa-Hien and Fa-hsien. show less
Translated from the French edition. More satisfactory than the English translation of H. A. Giles
A brief translation by H. A. Giles, originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1923
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