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Faxian

Chinese Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), pilgrim to India, and travelogue author during the Jin and Liu Song dynasties

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    A record of Buddhistic kingdoms being an account by the Chinese monk of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline / translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text by James Legge.

    Faxian | Date: 1886
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    The travels of Fa-hsien (399-414 A.D.), or Record of the Buddhistic kingdoms / retranslated by H.A. Giles.

    Faxian | Date: 1923
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    Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist pilgrims : from China to India (400 A.D. and 518 A.D.) / translated from Chinese by Samuel Beal.

    Faxian | Date: 1869
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    Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist pilgrims from China to India (400 A.D. and 518 A.D.) / translated from the Chinese, Samuel Beal.

    Faxian | Date: 1993

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