Faxian (法顯 [fà.ɕjɛ̀n]; 337 CE – c. 422 CE), also referred to as Fa-Hien, Fa-hsien and Sehi, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by...

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...

Southeast Asia. Many advances were recorded by the Chinese scholar and traveler Faxian in his diary and published afterwards. The court of Chandragupta II was...

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...

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...

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...

referring to. When Faxian, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim monk, visited the city of Nalanda, there probably was no university yet. Faxian had come to India...

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...

during the demolition of ashoka"s hell. The 5th-century Chinese traveller Faxian states that Ashoka personally visited the underworld to study torture methods...

During his travel across India in the 4th-5th centuries CE, Chinese traveler Faxian mentioned Chandalas while talking about the people of India: Throughout...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Travelers and historians such as Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century CE), Faxian (5th century CE) and Cosmas (6th century CE) mention the islands. Local...

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...

Uttar Pradesh", attracting visitors from East Asia; the Chinese travellers Faxian and Xuanzang found a flourishing city in the fifth and seventh centuries...

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...

pilgrim accounts record sightings of several columns that have now vanished: Faxian records six and Xuanzang fifteen, of which only five at most can be identified...

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...

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...

invasion appear to have remained deserted. The fifth-century Chinese traveller Faxian states that the ruins of Buddhist buildings existed at "Sha-chi" during...

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...

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...

further expanded in India during the Gupta (4th to 6th centuries) period. Faxian was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled extensively throughout northern...

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...