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Fackenheim, E.
(Jewish writer)
:

see
HOLOCAUST
;
SHO'AH
.

 
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Fa-hsiang
.

A school of Chinese Buddhism, also known as Dharma-character, which continued the teaching of
Vijñav
da
(Yog
c
ra), based on the writings of
Asa
ga
and
Vasubandhu
. It was founded by
Hsüan-tsang
(600–64), whose work and translation,
Ch'eng wei-shih lun
(
Vijñaptim
trat
-siddhi
) expounds the school's teaching. Everything is a
projection
of mind, and possesses no reality in itself. Consciousness is analysed into eight types, in order to account for the different forms of appearance. The school began to decline in the 9th cent., but continued as a philosophical influence for many centuries.

 
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(
c.
338–
c.
422).
Chinese Buddhist monk, who left China in 399 on pilgrimage to India, via the Him
layas. He collected Buddhist texts, and on his return to China in 414 he translated
Mah
parinirv
na-s
tra
and the
Mah
s
mghika
version of the
Vin
ya
-pi
aka
. But he is chiefly remembered for his account of his travels,
Fu-kuo chi
, for which see Li Yung-hsi,
A Record of the Buddhist Countries
(1957).