Faxian
Auteur van A Record of the Buddhist Countries
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Chinese Literature: Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of… (2019) 1 exemplaar
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- Overlijdensdatum
- 422 (circa)
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- Pingyang Wuyang (now Linfeng City, Shanxi), China
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A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms door James Legge
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 name include Fa-Hien and Fa-hsien.… (meer)
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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