Fazang
Buddhist patriarch (643-713) · Academics · Lived 643 to 712 · aged 69
Fazang was a Sogdian-Chinese Buddhist scholar, translator, and religious leader of the Tang dynasty. He was the third patriarch of the Huayan school of East Asian Buddhism, a key figure at the Chinese Imperial Court, and an influential Chinese Buddhist philosopher.
Fazang is read about 38 times a day, in 14 languages.
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Liao dynasty statue of the Eleven Headed Guanyin in Dule Temple in Tianjin, China.
Famen temple
Jianfu temple, Xi'an
Four Leaves from a Sanskrit Gandavyuha Manuscript
Photo of the ceiling of Ci'en Temple (Liaoning), depicting an intricate system of rafters.
A golden Chinese lion in the Forbidden City, Beijing.
Bronze of Vairocana, Ming dynasty, Aurora Museum, Shanghai.About this person
Some scholars see him as the main figure in or even de facto founder of the Huayan school. Fazang's ancestors came from the Central Asian region of Sogdia, a major center for Silk Road trade, but he was born in the Tang capital of Chang'an, where his family had become culturally Chinese.
