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Faxian (337 – c. 422 CE) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot all the way from China to India visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang China Pakistan India Nepal Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and between 399 and 412 to acquire Buddhist scriptures. 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.

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