# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yijing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:58:37.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yijing"
name: "Yijing"
slug: "yijing"
description: "Yijing, formerly romanized as I-ching or I-tsing, born Zhang Wenming, was a Tang-era Chinese Buddhist monk and renowned travel writer. His account of his travels are an important source for the history of the medieval kingdoms along the sea route between China and India, especially Srivijaya in Indonesia. He also gave accounts of the Gupta Period in ancient India. A student of the Buddhist university at Nālandā, he was also responsible for the translation of many Buddhist texts from Sanskrit and Pali into Chinese."
tagline: "(635–713), Chinese Buddhist monk, traveler, and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yi_Jing.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "635"
deathDate: "0713-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.26
  momentum:             0.7284572105419012
  historical:           20.06376133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  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