When did the Chinese discover America?

Fire of Learning, 3/24/19; Ken Campbell (Fu-Sang - The Last Wilderness, 4/12/09); Contributor Hendon Harris (Chinese Discover America); Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Did the Chinese discover America before Europeans?

Let's discuss the possibility that Chinese explorers landed in the Americas in 1491 and colonized the continent. Patreon, Facebook, Instagram: @Fire_of_Learning, Twitter: @Fire_Learning.

Blown off course across ocean to the Americas

Although Robert Gray sailed across the Columbia River bar in 1792, he wasn’t the first explorer to do so. Juan de Fuca wasn’t the first outsider who traveled the straits that bear his name.

Bodega y Quadra and Meares, Vancouver and the Hudson Bay Company, all of these intrepid adventurers were late to the game. Very late.

Meet the ancient Buddhist missionary Hwui Shan, Venerable Hwui, if you will: In the year 458, this Chinese Buddhist monk, accompanied by four Afghan Buddhist monks, sailed from China north to Japan.

Following maps along the coast to America

From there, they continued up the Kamchatka Peninsula then east to the Aleutian Islands, down the coast of Alaska, then south along the Pacific Coast, all the way [past Native American Los Angeles or Tongva] to Baja California.

Ven. Hwui called the entire region Fu-Sang, and he recorded the appearances and customs of the indigenous (Native American) peoples he came across on his missionary travels.

In the US desert exists Cathedral Rock, Utah

These descriptions are rich in detail and appear to be accurate, according to what we now know about that area at the time. The 41-year odyssey is recorded in the written court records of the Sung Dynasty in the year 499.

This was when a small band of missionary monks returned to China. According to one source, “They apparently reached Fu-Sang at about the time of the fall of the western Roman Empire, 476 AD, stayed for a period of years, and then returned to China.”

• Utah’s Church Rock: Cathedral in the Desert – Jan Emming (Hendon Harris comment)

Researcher Hendon Harris

Did it happen or not? The voyage of Ven. Hwui is recorded as having happened. Were the Chinese capable of overseas travel like this at such an early date? It's rather easy if one follows the coast up to Alaska and down to Mexico in an arch.

If the Chinese could cross raging seas and explore the wilds of the earth centuries before Europeans learned to bathe and practice hygiene like the indigenous people they met in the future-USA, it would be remarkable.

This is an intact Buddhist stupa in Asia.

It’s possible and maybe even plausible, but it’s strange we haven’t heard more about it. No matter. There are ghosts among us. Past and future wrap around what we innocently call the "present." We can see for ourselves.

Along the coast of Washington state, where wisps of fog slip in and out of the trees and dark clouds hang low, remember those who came before us. As the first drops of rain begin to fall and the wind carves the face of the water, think about those who have yet to arrive.

Is this a remnant Buddhist stupa in the USA?

When the fog clears at the right moment, it may be possible to hear the creak of rigging, the snap of sails and the muffled shouts of a crew out past the breakers, calling in a language (ancient Chinese) we can’t quite make out, from 12 centuries back. More

For more archeological and cultural evidence, see ChineseDiscoverAmerica.com