* Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk who founded Tōshōdai-ji in Japan ( d. 763 )

* Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk who founded Tōshōdai-ji in Japan ( b. 668 )

* 743 – 754: The Chinese monk Jianzhen attempts to reach Japan eleven times, succeeding in 754 to establish the Japanese Ritsu school, which specialises in the vinaya ( monastic rules ).

The Chinese monk Jianzhen, who traveled to Japan in the mid-8th century CE to promote Buddhism, wrote of the Okinawa as 阿児奈波 ().

It was founded by a Chinese Buddhist monk named Jianzhen during the Nara period in the year 759.

Image: Jianzhen memorial hall. jpg | Memorial Hall of monk Jianzhen

Some prime ministers in various dynasties were exiled there and the Buddhist monk Jianzhen accidentally sailed there and used the place as one of his harbors for his missionary journey to Japan.

According to one view, a dark brown sugar was also brought back from China by Jianzhen, who came to Japan from the Tang in this period.

As Jianzhen of the Tang dynasty brought an ordination platform in Todai-ji Temple, the Buddhism policy by the state reached the highlight.

* Shōsōin, a treasure house connected to Tōdai-ji in Nara, holds the teachings brought to Japan by Jianzhen in 753.

The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk Ganjin ( 鑑眞 ) in the middle of the 8th century, in what became the short-lived Ritsu school, but it was not widely accepted.

During his retreat, Saichō read about Chinese T ' ien-t ' ai meditation practice in Kegon texts and managed to obtain several T ' ient ' ai texts that had been brought to Japan by Chien-chen ( Ganjin, 688-763 ) in 754 but had subsequently been ignored by Japanese monks.

In 754, ordination was given by Ganjin, who arrived in Japan after overcoming hardships over 12 years and six attempts of crossing the sea from China, to Empress Kōken, former Emperor Shōmu and others.

753: Ganjin introduces the Ritsu ( Lü, Vinaya ) school to Japan.

First Introduction to Japan: Ganjin ( 鑑真 ), 753.

Hiragana was imported from Japan by Ganjin in 1265.

The Chinese monk Yijing who visited India in the 7th century, distinguishes Mahāyāna from Hīnayāna as follows:

The Chinese Buddhist monk and pilgrim Yijing wrote about relationship between the various " vehicles " and the early Buddhist schools in India.

In the 7th century, the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang describes the concurrent existence of the Mahavihara and the Abhayagiri Vihara in Sri Lanka.

* 1995 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese Buddhist monk ( b. 1918 )

* 1935 – Tenzin Gyatso, Chinese monk, 14th Dalai Lama and Nobel Prize laureate

In 630 AD Xuan Zang, the famous Chinese Buddhist monk, visited Jalalabad and a number of other locations nearby.

Among the Paleolithic ( Homo Erectus ) human settlements discovered in Sri Lanka, Pahiyangala ( named after the Chinese traveller monk Fa-Hsien ), which dates back to 37, 000 BP, Batadombalena ( 28, 500 BP ) and Belilena ( 12, 000 BP ) are the most important.

I Ching, a Chinese Buddhist monk, studied Sanskrit and spent four years of his life working in Palembang.

A stele erected by Shaolin abbot Wenzai in 1517 shows the deity's vajra-club had by then been changed to a Chinese staff, which originally " served as the emblem of the monk ".

* Fa-Hsien, Chinese Buddhist monk

* Kumārajīva, ( 344-413 ), Buddhist monk from India, translator of sutras into Chinese

* Tao-un ( 312-385 ), Chinese Buddhist monk, translator who elimnates Taoist words from Buddhist writings

* 748: The Chinese Buddhist monk Jian Zhen writes in his Yue Jue Shu of the international sea traffic coming to Guangzhou, ships from Borneo, Persia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and others bringing tons of goods.

* 782: Buddhist monk Prajna reaches Chang ' an and enlists the help of Christian bishop Ching Ching ( Adam ) in translating sutras into Chinese.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Yi Xing applies a clockwork escapement mechanism to operate and rotate his astronomical celestial globe.

* 561 to 592: Buddhist monk Jnanagupta translates 39 sutras from Sanskrit to Chinese.

* 399 – 412: The Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian sails through the Indian Ocean and travels throughout Sri Lanka and India to gather Buddhist scriptures.

* c. 401: Buddhist monk and translator of sutras, Kumarajiva into Chinese arrives in Chang ' an

* Faxian, Chinese Buddhist monk

* Kumarajiva, ( 344-413 ), Kuchean Buddhist monk and Chinese translator

* Jizang, Chinese Buddhist monk ( b. 549 )

** Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk ( b. 1089 )

* Yuanwu Keqin, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk ( b. 1063 )

* Baizhang, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk ( b. 720 )

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.

And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

Then the Chinese hostler, who rode with Vernon on the box, would break open a hamper and produce filets of smoked bass or sturgeon, sandwiches, pickled eggs, and a rum sangaree to be heated over a spirit lamp.

however the President, who would like to woo the former Chinese province away from both Peking and Moscow, would promise Chen nothing more than an abstention by the U.S. if Outer Mongolia's admission comes to a vote.

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

In its monastic form, Mahayana was merely an organization of magic-practicing monks ( bonzes ), who catered to the Chinese faith in the supernatural.

The identity of the high-ranking personage who lived luxuriously in Chinese style, far outside of the borders of the Han Empire, has remained a matter for discussion ever since.

Russian archaeologist L. A. Evtyukhova surmised, based on circumstantial evidence, that the palace may have been the residence of Li Ling, a Chinese general who had been defeated by the Xiongnu in 99 BC, and defected to them as a result.

The Chinese, who make up 29 % of the population of Sarawak and 17 % of total population in West Kalimantan, originally migrated from southeastern China.

A more general binomial theorem and the so-called " Pascal's triangle " were known in the 10th-century A. D. to Indian mathematician Halayudha and Persian mathematician Al-Karaji, in the 11th century to Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam, and in the 13th century to Chinese mathematician Yang Hui, who all derived similar results .< ref > Al-Karaji also provided a mathematical proof of both the binomial theorem and Pascal's triangle, using mathematical induction.

** Overseas Chinese, people of Chinese ancestry who live outside mainland China and Taiwan

Ancient Chinese records mention two kings, Shrutavarman and Shreshthavarman who ruled at the capital Shreshthapura located in modern day southern Laos.

* Baphuon Style ( 1050 – 1080 ): Baphuon, the massive temple mountain of King Udayadityavarman II was apparently the temple that most impressed the Chinese traveller Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor toward the end of the 13th century.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

In this period, the Chinese worshipped many different gods — weather gods and sky gods — and also a supreme god, named Shangdi, who ruled over the other gods.

The dynasty continued to flourish under Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress regnant in Chinese history, and reached its zenith during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who oversaw an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Aral Sea with at least 50 million people.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols were divided between those who wanted to remain based in the steppes and those who wished to adopt the customs of the Chinese.

This view was reinforced by Pope Benedict XIV, who ordered a ban on Chinese rituals.

Confucianism represents the collected teachings of the Chinese sage Confucius, who lived from 551 to 479 BCE.