Faxian

Fa Xian (tradicionalni kineski: 法顯; pojednostavljeni kineski: 法显; pinyin: Fǎxiǎn; također latiniziran kao Fa-Hien ili Fa-hsien) (337. – oko 422) bio je kineski budistički redovnik koji je između 399. i 412. putovao današnjim Nepalom, Indijom i Šri Lankom kako bi dobavio budističke spise. Putovanje je opisao u knjizi Zapis o budističkim kraljevstvima.

Izvori

• Legge, James 1886. A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline Arhivirano 2009-01-24 na Wayback Machine-u. Oxford, Clarendon Press. Reprint: New York, Paragon Book Reprint Corp. 1965. ISBN 0-486-21344-7
• Beal, Samuel. 1884. Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Hiuen Tsiang. 2 vols. Translated by Samuel Beal. London. 1884. Reprint: Delhi. Oriental Books Reprint Corporation. 1969. (Also contains a translation of Faxian's book on pp. xxiii-lxxxiii).

Vanjske veze

Faxian na Wikimedijinoj ostavi

• A RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India
• Djela čiji je autor Faxian na Projektu Gutenberg
• Extracts from James Legge's translation [1]