Echoes Of India: A History Podcast

A Chinese Monk in Ancient India

Echoes Of India: A History Podcast

Show Notes

How did South Asian Buddhism catch on in China? How did the interaction between South and East Asia shape the intellectual and economic evolution of Eurasia? Luckily for us, in the early 400s CE, the remarkable 60-year old Chinese monk Faxian actually...

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