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Fǎxiǎn (pinyin, Chinese characters: 法顯, also romanized as Fa-Hien or Fa-hsien) (ca.

337 – ca. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, who, between 399 and 412 travelled to India to bring Buddhist scriptures.

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His account became best known as The Biography of the Eminent Monk Faxian (Gaoseng faxian zhuan 高僧法顯傳), or simply The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms.

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His journey is described in his work A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline. On Faxian’s return to China he landed at Laoshan in modern Shandong province, 30km east of the city of Qingdao.

After landing, he proceeded to Shandong’s then-capital, Qingzhou, where he remained for a year translating and editing the scriptures he had collected.

The following is from the introduction to a translation of Faxian’s work by James Legge:

Nothing of great importance is known about Fa-hien in addition to what may be gathered from his own record of his travels.

I have read the accounts of him in the Memoirs of Eminent Monks, compiled in