It is believed that “Faxian” was the oldest and the first Chinese to travel to India somewhere around 399. He a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled by foot all the way from China to India and visited many Buddhist sites in China, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He was born in 337 AD, Linfen, China and died in 422 AD.
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It is believed that “Faxian” was the oldest and the first Chinese to travel to India somewhere around 399. He a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled by foot all the way from China to India and visited many Buddhist sites in China, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He was born in 337 AD, Linfen, China and died in 422 AD.