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Not to be confused with the I Ching, the Book of Changes.
I Ching (義淨) (635 - 713) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled to India via the Silk Trade Route to collect Buddhist texts in Sanskrit. These he took back to China and translated into Chinese. Based for a time at the Hsi-ming-ssu temple in Ch'ang-an the capital of T'ang China.
On his trip he also visited the Srivijaya kingdom on the Malay peninsula, and by his writing on the trip gave one of the few sources about that kingdom.
Translated 60+ sutras into Chinese, including:
- Sarvabhava Vinaya (一切有部毗奈耶)
- Avadana, i.e. Stores (譬喻經)
- Suvarnaprabhascottamaraja-sutra, i.e. Sutra of the Most Honored King (金光明最勝王經)
