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Guangzhou

Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong province on the Pearl River, was the principal southern Chinese seaport and a gateway for Buddhism arriving by the maritime route. The Yogācāra translator Paramārtha worked and died in the city in the sixth century; the future Sixth Chan Patriarch Huineng received his full ordination at the Faxing (now Guangxiao) monastery there; and the pilgrim Yijing passed through on his sea voyages to and from India.

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