Download or read book written by Faxian and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Record of the Buddhist Countries written by Faxian and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms written by Faxian and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Record Of Buddhistic Kingdoms written by Faxian Faxian and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms" is a travelogue written by Faxian (also spelled Fa Hsien), a Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar who lived during the 4th and 5th centuries CE. The book chronicles Faxian's journey from China to India and back, as he sought to obtain Buddhist scriptures and deepen his understanding of Buddhism. In his account, Faxian provides vivid descriptions of the countries, people, and Buddhist sites he encountered along the way. Faxian's observations shed light on the cultural practices, religious customs, and social conditions of the Buddhist kingdoms he visited. As an ardent Buddhist practitioner and scholar, Faxian's primary purpose was to collect Buddhist scriptures and learn from esteemed teachers. "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms" is not only a valuable historical record of Faxian's travels but also an important source of information on the spread and development of Buddhism in Asia. It provides valuable insights into the religious and cultural landscape of the time and contributes to our understanding of ancient Buddhist traditions and practices. Faxian's travelogue remains a significant text for scholars and enthusiasts of Buddhism, history, and cross-cultural exchanges.
Download or read book The Travels of Fa hsien 399 414 A D Or Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1923 edition of The Travels of Fa-hsien was translated into English by H. A. Giles (1845-1935).
Download or read book In the Forest of the Blind written by Matthew W. King and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Faxian’s journey in the early fifth century CE to Buddhist sites in Central and South Asia in search of sacred texts. In the nineteenth century, it traveled west to France, becoming in translation the first scholarly book about “Buddhist Asia,” a recent invention of Europe. This text fascinated European academic Orientalists and was avidly studied by Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. The book went on to make a return journey east: it was reintroduced to Inner Asia in an 1850s translation into Mongolian, after which it was rendered into Tibetan in 1917. Amid decades of upheaval, the text was read and reinterpreted by Siberian, Mongolian, and Tibetan scholars and Buddhist monks. Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the transnational literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s Record. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery. King shows how the text provided Inner Asian readers with new historical resources to make sense of their histories as well as their own times, in the process developing an Asian historiography independently of Western influence. Reconstructing this circulatory history and featuring annotated translations, In the Forest of the Blind models decolonizing methods and approaches for Buddhist studies and Asian humanities.
Download or read book A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an Account by the Chinese Monk F Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon A D 399 414 written by Faxian and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms written by Faxian and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a travelogue written by a medieval Chinese monk named Fa-Hien. He traveled through Central Asia and India from 399 to 414 A.D. The author's journey took him through the distant regions of Tibet and then through the areas of modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, and Sri Lanka. Throughout the book, he displays local variations on Buddhist practice, such as festivals, rituals, folklore about legendary visits by the Buddha.
Download or read book Xuanzang written by Benjamin Brose and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and legacy of Xuanzang: a Buddhist seeker, philosopher, and intrepid traveler who became the world's most famous pilgrim. In the fall of 629, Xuanzang (600–662), a twenty-nine-year-old Buddhist monk, left the capital of China to begin an epic pilgrimage across the country, through the deserts of Central Asia, and into India. His goal was to locate and study authentic Buddhist doctrine and practice, then bring the true teachings back to his homeland. Over the course of nearly seventeen years, he walked thousands of miles and visited hundreds of Buddhist monasteries and monuments. He studied with the leading teachers of his day and compiled a written account of his travels that remains a priceless record of premodern Indian history, religion, and culture. When Xuanzang finally returned to China in 645, he brought with him a treasure trove of new texts, relics, and icons. This transmission of Indian Buddhist teachings to China, made possible by Xuanzang’s unparalleled vision and erudition, was a landmark moment in the history of East Asian Buddhism. As with many great pre-modern religious figures, the legends surrounding Xuanzang’s life have taken on lives of their own. His story has been retold, reshaped, and repurposed by generations of monastics and laypeople. In this comprehensive and engaging account, Benjamin Brose charts a course between the earliest, most reliable accounts of Xuanzang’s biography and the fantastic legends that later developed, such as those in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. Xuanzang remains one of the most consequential monks in the rich history of Buddhism in East Asia. This book is an indispensable introduction to his extraordinary life and enduring legacies.
Download or read book Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms written by Fa Xian and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faxian (337 - c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from Ancient China to Ancient India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts. His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Xian of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline. Other transliterations of his name include Fa-Hien, and Fa-hsien. In 399 Faxian set out with nine others to locate sacred Buddhist texts. He visited India in the early fifth century. He is said to have walked all the way from China across the icy desert and rugged mountain passes. He entered India from the northwest and reached Pataliputra. He took back with him Buddhist texts and images sacred to Buddhism. He saw the ruins of the city when he reached Pataliputra. Faxian's visit to India occurred during the reign of Chandragupta II. He is also renowned for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha (modern Nepal). However, he mentioned nothing about Guptas. Faxian claimed that demons and dragons were the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka. On Faxian's way back to China, after a two-year stay in Ceylon, a violent storm drove his ship onto an island, probably Java. After five months there, Faxian took another ship for southern China; but, again, it was blown off course and he ended up landing at Mount Lao in what is now Shandong in northern China, 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of the city of Qingdao. He spent the rest of his life translating and editing the scriptures he had collected. Faxian wrote a book on his travels, filled with accounts of early Buddhism, and the geography and history of numerous countries along the Silk Road as they were, at the turn of the 5th century CE. He wrote about cities like Taxila Patliputra, Mathura, and Kannauj in Middle India. He also wrote that inhabitants of Middle India also eat and dress like Chinese people. He declared Patliputra as a very prosperous city. He returned in 412 and settled in what is now Nanjing. In 414 he wrote (or dictated) Foguoji (A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms; also known as Faxian's Account). He spent the next decade, until his death, translating the Buddhist sutra he had brought with him from India.
Download or read book A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa Hsien on Travels in India and Ceylon A D 399 414 in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline written by Monk Fa-Hsien and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lost Kingdoms Hindu Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia written by Guy, John and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and exciting exploration of Southeast Asian history from the 5th to 9th century, seen through the lens of the region's sculpture
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Download or read book The Life of Hiuen Tsiang written by Huili and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms written by James Legge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms--Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hein of Travels in India and Ceylon (Ad 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, is one of the most important source for reconstructing the life and conditions of the times. Though brief, his account of the general characteristics and tendencies of Gupta imperial administration is very valuable. Likewise, the account also gives a fair deal of information on the religious usages and practices and is invaluable for the graphic information it provides about Buddhism in India, Central Asia and Ceylon. Equally interesting and useful is the thrilling account of the perilous sea-voyage to South-East Asia and his journey through Central Asia to India.
Download or read book Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions The written by Xuanzang and published by BDK America. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The great Tang dynasty record of the western regions is the itinerary of the journey undertaken by the Tripitaka-Master Xuanzang [a.k.a. Hsüan-tsang], in India and some parts of Central Asia in 629-45 C.E."--Page 1.
