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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 India to acquire Buddhist scriptures.
Faxian (flourished 399–414) was a Buddhist monk whose pilgrimage to India in 402 initiated Sino-Indian relations and whose writings give important information about early Buddhism. After his return to China he translated into Chinese the many Sanskrit Buddhist texts he had brought back.
Faxian was a Chinese monk who left Chang’an (present-day Xi’an) in 399 CE to set forth on an expedition through Central Asia to India, and ultimately Sri Lanka at the age of 62. During a visit to Chang’an, he was taken aback by the torn and weathered state of the Books of Discipline (Vinaya Pitakas) which contain the monastic code for ...
Faxian (Chinese: 法顯; 337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled 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.
The Journey of Faxian to India. Between 399 and 414 CE, the Chinese monk Faxian (Fa-Hsien, Fa Hien) undertook a trip via Central Asia to India seeking better copies of Buddhist books than were currently available in China.
Faxian was one of the first and perhaps the oldest Chinese monk to travel to India. In 399, when he embarked on his trip from the ancient Chinese capital Chang’an (present-day Xi’an in Shaanxi province), Faxian was more than sixty years old.
One of the 5th century travelers on the early Silk Road that a detailed written account of his experiences is Fa-hsien, a Chinese Buddhist monk who, at an age of 65, went on a pilgrimage from central China to Tamluk in what we today know as West Bengal, India.
Faxian, or Fa-hsien orig. Sehi, (flourished 399–414), Chinese Buddhist monk who initiated relations with India. Eager to learn of his religion at its source, he traveled to India in 402 and spent a decade visiting the major Buddhist shrines and seats of learning, especially sites in eastern India, including Kapilavastu, Bodh Gaya, and ...
Jan 1, 2017 · As a clerical name, Faxian in Chinese literally means “Revealing the Dharma.” The “Shi,” which often precedes it, is an abbreviation of the clan name of the Buddha as Śākya signifying “mighty in love, dwelling in seclusion and silence.”
Some of those who returned to China left records about their travels or of the information they had gathered about the “Western Regions.”The most famous of these monks are Faxian (trav. 319–413), Xuanzang (trav. 629–645), and Yijing (trav. 671–695).
