The Journey of Faxian to India
Stories about the adventures of early people especially the Buddhist monks are fascinating. This paper is an analysis of an excerpt of Chinese Buddhist monk’s journey from China to India. The topic of the essay is directly taken from the excerpt which is the primary source of my essay. It is the account of the journey of a Chinese monk, Faxian, from China to India through Central Asia. Faxian wrote the book from which this excerpt is taken. The excerpt was written to give an account of the journey of Faxian from China to India to seek better copies on the books of Buddhism that were available in China. The source explores some of the adventures that the monk and his colleagues encountered immediately before, during …show more content…
Faxian and his companions traveled by foot for many days from China to India. There were very few definite routes and paths to follow. They travel, through the jungle, the wilderness and expose themselves to very harsh conditions of the desert and the dangers of the jungle because the transport network of that time was quite crude. A car is only mentioned once in the excerpt when it is used by the king of the country of K'eeh-ch'a in what seems to be his wedding ceremony. Therefore, cars must have been one of the precious possessions of that time and could not be used by any ordinary person but by kings during special events and rarely for …show more content…
We may conclude that the reason why Faxian was welcomed in all the kingdoms they came across was because they belonged to the same religion with their hosts. It was not common for people to welcome foreigners if they did not share anything in common. Faxian and his friends traveled across the wide geographical area, but almost everywhere they went they found monks. No other region is mentioned in the excerpt besides Buddhism. Serving in Buddhism was one of the prestigious things to do by then because of the great respect for monks that made many people leave their homes and go to serve Buddha as monks. Faxian and his friends, on the other hand, went on adventure in pursuit of knowledge of Buddhism. The knowledge and wisdom of Buddhism were prestigious things worth
Stories about the adventures of early people especially the Buddhist monks are fascinating. This paper is an analysis of an excerpt of Chinese Buddhist monk’s journey from China to India. The topic of the essay is directly taken from the excerpt which is the primary source of my essay. It is the account of the journey of a Chinese monk, Faxian, from China to India through Central Asia. Faxian wrote the book from which this excerpt is taken. The excerpt was written to give an account of the journey of Faxian from China to India to seek better copies on the books of Buddhism that were available in China. The source explores some of the adventures that the monk and his colleagues encountered immediately before, during …show more content…
Faxian and his companions traveled by foot for many days from China to India. There were very few definite routes and paths to follow. They travel, through the jungle, the wilderness and expose themselves to very harsh conditions of the desert and the dangers of the jungle because the transport network of that time was quite crude. A car is only mentioned once in the excerpt when it is used by the king of the country of K'eeh-ch'a in what seems to be his wedding ceremony. Therefore, cars must have been one of the precious possessions of that time and could not be used by any ordinary person but by kings during special events and rarely for …show more content…
We may conclude that the reason why Faxian was welcomed in all the kingdoms they came across was because they belonged to the same religion with their hosts. It was not common for people to welcome foreigners if they did not share anything in common. Faxian and his friends traveled across the wide geographical area, but almost everywhere they went they found monks. No other region is mentioned in the excerpt besides Buddhism. Serving in Buddhism was one of the prestigious things to do by then because of the great respect for monks that made many people leave their homes and go to serve Buddha as monks. Faxian and his friends, on the other hand, went on adventure in pursuit of knowledge of Buddhism. The knowledge and wisdom of Buddhism were prestigious things worth