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Bhikkhu

fully ordained male Buddhist monastic

33 dated entries naming Bhikkhu, drawn from 32 separate years between 147 CE and 2007 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century

  • 147Lokaksema, Kushan Buddhist monk and traveler (died 189)source

4th century

  • 312Dao'an, Chinese Buddhist monk and writer (died 385)source
  • 314Zhi Dun, Chinese Buddhist monk and philosopher (died 366)source
  • 366Zhi Dun, Chinese Buddhist monk and philosopher (born 314)source
  • 385Dao An, Buddhist monk of the Jin Dynasty (born 312)source

5th century

  • 401Kumarajiva, Kuchean Buddhist monk, arrives in Chang'an and begins translating Buddhist texts into Chinese.source
  • 440Bodhidharma, semi-legendary Buddhist monk (approximate date)source
  • 446Three Disasters of Wu: The Northern Wei dynasty begins persecuting Buddhists, having heretofore encouraged them. The drain of manpower and tax money to temples and monasteries has threatened the secular government, and the reaction is fierce: monks and nuns are murdered, temples and icons destroyed. All men under age 50 are prohibited from joining any monastic order in a program that will continue until 450, helping the Confucianist philosophy of the Han dynasty to gain dominance over Buddhism.source

6th century

  • 520Bodhidharma, Buddhist monk, arrives in Luoyang. He spreads Buddhism and travels to the northern Chinese kingdom of Wei, to the Shaolin Monastery.source
  • 575Zhiyi, Chinese monk, travels to Mount Tiantai for intensive study and practice. He works with a group of disciples on the Indian meditation of śamatha and vipaśyanā.source
  • 585Zhiyi, Chinese monk, returns to the city of Jinling, where he completes his commentarial works on the Lotus Sutra.source

7th century

  • 622Xuanzang is fully ordained as a Buddhist monk at the age of 20.source
  • 629Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, sets out for India from the Tang dynasty capital Chang'an on a pilgrimage.source
  • 631Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, crosses the Indus River at Hund and travels to Kashmir ("Heaven on Earth") in northwestern India (approximate date).source
  • 635Yijing, Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler (died 713)source
  • 645Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, returns to China after a 16-year pilgrimage to India. He is greeted with much honor by Emperor Taizong.source
  • 653The Temple of Sinheungsa in Gangwon Province (South Korea) is constructed by the Buddhist monk Jajang.source

8th century

  • 704Hyecho, Korean Buddhist monk (died 787)source
  • 713Yijing, Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler (born 635)source
  • 725Yi Xing, Chinese Buddhist monk and astronomer, applies a clockwork escapement mechanism, to provide rotating motion to his astronomical armillary sphere.source
  • 737Huaisu, Chinese Buddhist monk (died 799)source
  • 787Hyecho, Korean Buddhist monk (born 704)source
  • 799Huaisu, Chinese Buddhist monk (born 737)source

9th century

  • 814Enchin, Japanese Buddhist monk (died 891)source
  • 826Doseon, Korean Buddhist monk (died 898)source
  • 891Enchin, Japanese Buddhist monk (born 814)source
  • 898Doseon, Korean Buddhist monk (born 826)source

10th century

  • 945July 4 – Zhuo Yanming, Chinese Buddhist monk and emperorsource

12th century

  • 1101October 5 – Uicheon, Korean Buddhist monk (born 1055)source

13th century

  • 1201Eison, Japanese Buddhist scholar-monk and disciple (died 1290)source

20th century

  • 1963June 11 – In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by Ngô Đình Diệm's government.source

21st century

  • 2007October 8: 2007 Burmese anti-government protests: Burma's junta announces that Buddhist monasteries have accepted US$8000 as well as food and medicine from its soldiers to signify the armed forces have not left the faith.source
  • 2007October 31: Buddhist monks return to the streets of Burma for the first time since a crackdown on protests last month.source

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