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18 Facts About Fa-Hien

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Faxian, referred to as Fa-Hien, Fa-hsien and Sehi, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from China to India to acquire Buddhist texts.

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Fa-Hien described his journey in his travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms.

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Fa-Hien's memoirs are notable independent record of early Buddhism in India.

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Fa-Hien took with him a large number of Sanskrit texts, whose translations influenced East Asian Buddhism and which provide a terminus ante quem for many historical names, events, texts, and ideas therein.

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Fa-Hien later adopted the name Faxian, which literally means "Splendor of Dharma".

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Fa-Hien set out with nine others to locate sacred Buddhist texts.

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Fa-Hien is said to have walked all the way from China across the icy desert and rugged mountain passes.

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Fa-Hien took back with him a large number of Sanskrit Buddhist texts and images sacred to Buddhism.

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Fa-Hien visited the major sites associated with the Buddha, as well the renowned centers of education and Buddhist monasteries.

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Fa-Hien visited Kapilvastu, Bodh Gaya, Benares, Shravasti, and Kushinagar, all linked to events in Buddha's life.

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Fa-Hien spent the rest of his life translating and editing the scriptures he had collected.

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Fa-Hien wrote about cities like Taxila, Pataliputra, Mathura, and Kannauj in Madhyadesha.

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Fa-Hien wrote that inhabitants of Madhyadesha eat and dress like Chinese people.

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Fa-Hien spent the next decade, until his death, translating the Buddhist sutras he had brought with him from India.

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Fa-Hien had three brothers older than himself; but when they all died before shedding their first teeth, his father devoted him to the service of the Buddhist society, and had him entered as a Sramanera, still keeping him at home in the family.

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Fa-Hien noted that central Asian cities such as Khotan were Buddhist, with the clergy reading Indian manuscripts in Indian languages.

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Fa-Hien describes elaborate rituals and public worship ceremonies, with support of the king, in the honor of the Buddha in India and Sri Lanka.

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Fa-Hien left India about 409 from Tamralipti – a port he states to be on its eastern coast.

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