Yijing
YIJING (635–713), Chinese Buddhist translator and traveler to India. Born Zhang Wenming, a native of Qizhou (modern Shandong province), Yijing left his family at the age of seven and liv...
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I-Ching
634-712
Chinese Pilgrim
As a Buddhist monk who traveled to India from China, I-ching followed in the footsteps of earlier pilgrims Fa-hsien (c. 334-c. 422) and Hsüan-tsang (602-664). He d...
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I-Ching
Born 634 Died c. 712
I-Ching was one of a large number of Chinese Buddhist monks who traveled to India—the birthplace of Buddhism— to visit holy sites and study original religious...
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