Buddhist texts & Western Regions - Unionpedia, the concept map
Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.
Difference between Buddhist texts and Western Regions
Buddhist texts vs. Western Regions
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions. The Western Regions or Xiyu (Hsi-yü) was a historical name specified in Ancient Chinese chronicles between the 3rd century BC to the 8th century AD that referred to the regions west of the Yumen Pass, most often the Tarim Basin in present-day southern Xinjiang (also known as Altishahr) and Central Asia (specifically the easternmost portion around the Ferghana Valley), though it was sometimes used more generally to refer to other regions to the west of China as well, such as Parthia (which technically belonged to West Asia) and Tianzhu (as in the novel Journey to the West, which refers to the Indian subcontinent in South Asia).
Similarities between Buddhist texts and Western Regions
Buddhist texts and Western Regions have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Buddhist texts, Mahayana sutras, Records of the Western Regions, Xuanzang.
Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions.
Buddhist texts and Buddhist texts · Buddhist texts and Western Regions · See more »
Mahayana sutras
The Mahāyāna sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist scripture (sūtra) that are accepted as canonical and as ''buddhavacana'' ("Buddha word") in certain communities of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Buddhist texts and Mahayana sutras · Mahayana sutras and Western Regions · See more »
Records of the Western Regions
The Records of the Western Regions, also known by its Chinese name as the Datang Xiyuji or Da Tang Xiyu Ji and by various other translations and transcriptions, is a narrative of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang's nineteen-year journey from Tang China through the Western Regions to medieval India and back during the mid-7th century.
Buddhist texts and Records of the Western Regions · Records of the Western Regions and Western Regions · See more »
Xuanzang
Xuanzang ((Hsüen Tsang); 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui / Chen Yi (/), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator.
Buddhist texts and Xuanzang · Western Regions and Xuanzang · See more »
The list above answers the following questions
- What Buddhist texts and Western Regions have in common
- What are the similarities between Buddhist texts and Western Regions
Buddhist texts and Western Regions Comparison
Buddhist texts has 308 relations, while Western Regions has 76. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 1.04% = 4 / (308 + 76).
References
This article shows the relationship between Buddhist texts and Western Regions. To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit: