Faxian (337–c. 422 CE), formerly romanized as Fa-hien and Fa-hsien, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled on foot from Jin China to medieval...
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Gupta Empire (section Faxian)
Asia. Many advances were recorded by the Chinese scholar and traveller Faxian in his diary and published afterwards. The court of Chandragupta II was...
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Lanka, Pahiyangala (37,000 BP), named after the Chinese traveller monk Faxian; Batadombalena (28,500 BP); and Belilena (12,000 BP) are the most important...
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mentions the god manifested itself before the famous Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian (c. 4th century) during his pilgrimage to India. Shensha shen tells him:...
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Wu Faxian (Chinese: 吴法宪; 1915–2004) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army. In 1930 he became a soldier...
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During his travel across India in the 4th-5th centuries CE, Chinese traveler Faxian mentioned Chandalas while talking about the people of India: Throughout...
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Chandragupta II (section Faxian's visit)
devout Vaishnav but tolerated other faiths as well. The Chinese pilgrim Faxian, who visited India during his reign, suggests that he ruled over a peaceful...
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already in China by 402 CE, carried by the influential Buddhist pilgrim Faxian who translated them into Chinese by 418 CE. Xuanzang, another Chinese Buddhist...
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Nalanda mahavihara (section Faxian visit (399–412 CE))
and Mathura. When Faxian, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim monk, visited the city of Nalanda, there probably was no university yet. Faxian had come to India...
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and likely copied after an early North-Eastern Indian Pāla style image. Faxian, the Chinese pilgrim, left the following account of his visit to the Śrī...
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during the demolition of ashoka"s hell. The 5th-century Chinese traveller Faxian states that Ashoka personally visited the underworld to study torture methods...
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dynasties for the rest of this period. In 412 AD, the Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian landed at Laoshan, on the southern edge of the Shandong peninsula, and proceeded...
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sieriendipnost (Серендипность); Japanese serendipiti (セレンディピティ); Chinese yìwài fāxiàn (意外发现 that is "unexpected discovery"). Others use directly the term serendipity...
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recited or chanted at Buddhist temples in East Asia. When the Chinese monk Faxian traveled to Mathura in India around 400 CE, he wrote about monks presenting...
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accounts. Foremost among these are the accounts of the Chinese pilgrims Faxian in the 5th century and Xuanzang in the 7th century. The area was at the...
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a "swelling and obstruction of the spleen." In 406 CE, the Chinese monk Faxian wrote that ginger was carried on Chinese ships to prevent scurvy.[failed...
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regarded as the furthest part of northern ancient India during the time of Faxian. The 8th century Korean monk Hye Cho wrote in his Memoir of the travel to...
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history. The islands have been mentioned in the accounts of travellers like Faxian in the 6th century CE and I-T’sing in 7th century CE. In the 11th century...
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Lin, Yufen; Chan, Shaowu; Yuan, Jiarong (1982). "Húnán shěng xīběi bù xīn fāxiàn de bǔrǔ dòngwù huàshí jí qí yìyì" 湖南省西北部新发现的哺乳动物化石及其意义 [Mammalian Fossils...
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ISSN 2397-334X. PMID 30962558. S2CID 102353734. Chengzhi, Hu (1973). "Yunnan Yuanmou faxian de yuanren yachi huashi". Dizhi Xuebao. 1: 65–71. There was long-standing...
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sitting in a pleasant cave of the Goverdhan Mountain" Chinese Buddhist Monk Faxian mentions the city as a centre of Buddhism about 400 CE. He found the people...
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to be found. The Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya was translated by Buddhabhadra and Faxian in 416 CE, and is preserved in Chinese translation (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425)...
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invasion appear to have remained deserted. The fifth-century Chinese traveller Faxian states that the ruins of Buddhist buildings existed at "Sha-chi" during...
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Xuanzang in the 7th century CE and by another ancient Chinese monk-pilgrim Faxian in the early 5th century CE. The Brahmi inscription on the pillar gives...
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Ptolemy (c. 140 CE). It was also visited by the Chinese Buddhist travellers Faxian and Xuanzang in the fifth and seventh centuries CE, respectively. During...
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cowries. Only the Chandalas are fishermen and hunters, and sell flesh meat. — Faxian, Chinese pilgrim to India (4th/5th century CE), A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms...
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cowries. Only the Chandalas are fishermen and hunters, and sell flesh meat. — Faxian, Chinese pilgrim to India (4th/5th century CE), A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms...
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Mahavamsa stands in contrast to the writings of the Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian, who journeyed to India and Sri Lanka in the early 5th century (between...
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Bodhisattvas (八大菩薩曼荼羅經), translated by Amoghavajra in the 8th century and Faxian (10th century). The Eight Great Bodhisattvas are the following: Mañjuśrī...
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further expanded in India during the Gupta (4th to 6th centuries) period. Faxian was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled extensively throughout northern...
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