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    as Faxian's Travels (t 《法顯行傳》, s 《法显行传》, Fǎxiǎn Xíngzhuàn), Faxian's Biography (t 《法顯傳》, s 《法显传》, Fǎxiǎnzhuàn), Memoirs of the Eminent Monk Faxian (t...
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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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    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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  • joined by Fǎxiǎn. It is here that Buddhabhadra and his team (consisting of Chinese disciples such as Bǎoyún, Huìguān, Zhìyán) along with Fǎxiǎn, translated...
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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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  • 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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    13-layer copper-gilded chatra. In the 400s CE, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Faxian visited the structure and described it as "the highest of all the towers"...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Uttar Pradesh", attracting visitors from East Asia; the Chinese travellers Faxian and Xuanzang found a flourishing city in the fifth and seventh centuries...
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    Travelers and historians such as Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century CE), Faxian (5th century CE) and Cosmas (6th century CE) mention the islands. Local...
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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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    community, and in all likelihood harks back to the time of the Buddha himself." Faxian and other Chinese pilgrims who travelled to India in the early centuries...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Murong Chui's brother Murong De declared himself prince of Southern Yan. 399 Faxian left for India to acquire Buddhist texts. 400 Six commanderies of Northern...
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    Tang, where Xuanzang developed the desire to visit India. He knew about Faxian's visit to India and, like him, was concerned about the incomplete and misinterpreted...
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    French-Belgian 20th Tibet (Traveled to Lhasa) Isaac Davis Welsh 18th Hawaii Faxian Chinese 5th India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia John Davis English 16th...
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    pilgrims visited the site, according to the records left by Chinese pilgrim Faxian around 400 CE. The second phase of construction at the Ajanta Caves site...
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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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    PLAAF Wu Faxian. This was an important position, as all crucial documents were required to pass through Lin's hands. According to Wu Faxian's testimony...
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