# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/faxian
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:57.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/faxian"
name: "Faxian"
slug: "faxian"
description: "Faxian, formerly romanized as Fa-hien or Fa-hsien, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled on foot from the Later Qin state to medieval India to acquire Buddhist scriptures. His birth surname was Gong. Starting his journey about age 60, he traveled west along the overland Silk Road, visiting Buddhist sites in Central, South, and Southeast Asia. The journey and return took from 399 to 412, with 10 years spent in India."
tagline: "Chinese Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), pilgrim to India, and travelogue author during the Jin and Liu Song dynasties"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Faxian_statue_in_Maritime_Experiential_Museum_%26_Aquarium_Singapore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "340"
deathDate: "422"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.29937066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump