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Fa-hsien

British  
/ ˈfɑːˈsjɛn /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of Fa Xian

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The Central-Asian shrines visited by Buddhist pilgrims from China on their way to India, Fa-hsien in the fifth and Hsuan-tsang in the seventh century, are now appropriated to Islam.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)

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