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+== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] ==
+'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Fa-Hien}} or {{Style S-Small capitals|Fa-Hsien}}'''. Chinese Buddhist monk and traveller. Native of Wu-yang, province of Shansi. Travelled extensively, 399-414 A.D., in India, Khotan and Tibet, in company with Hui King and other Chinese pilgrims. From Khotan, journeyed through Kashmir, etc., to Central India, reaching there in 405, after six years of wandering. Remained in India ten years, seeking complete copies of ''Vinayapitaka'', and compiling information regarding Buddhism and its founder’s life. Then went to Ceylon, where he copied many sacred texts, and to Java, whence he returned home, 414. Died in Sin Monastery at 88 years of age. Author of ''Fo-kue-ki'', a journal of his travels (trans, by Herbert E. Giles. London: Triibner and Co.; Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1877; also Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1923; trans, by James Legge. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886; trans, by Samuel Beal. London: Trubner and Co., 1869).
+{{Quote source
+|author = Boris de Zirkoff
+|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings
+|detail = vol. 5, p. 374
+|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#374
+}}