Writers from Shanxi

Chinese Confucian philosopher (c. 310 – after 238 BCE)

Faxian (337–), formerly romanized as Fa-hien , Fa-hsien, and Hiuen Tsang was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled on foot from Jin China to medieval India to acquire Buddhist scriptures. His birth name was Gong Sehi. Starting his journey about age 60, he traveled west along the overland Silk Road, visiting Buddhist sites in Central, South, and Southeast Asia. The journey and return took from 399 to 412, with 10 years spent in India.

14th-century Chinese writer

Chinese Buddhist monk (334–416)

Chinese philosopher

Chinese cartographer and geographer (224-271)

Chinese television presenter

Chinese writer

Tanluan (, 476–554) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who wrote on Pure Land Buddhism.

chancellor during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Tang (547-627)

Chinese Buddhist

Chinese scholar (1636-1704)

jin dynasty minister and Xuanxue thinker

Chinese economist (1920-2007)

thumb|Traditional portrait of Patriarch Daochuo Daochuo (; J. Dōshaku, c. 562–645) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist master of Pure Land Buddhism. He was also known as Chan Master Xihe (Meditation Master of the West River).

Chinese writer

Chinese politician and economist (1913–2015)

Chinese novelist