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Today, we discover America -- a thousand years before Columbus. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. ... Or can we take Hoei-Shin's journey as established historical fact?
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www.uh.edu/engines/epi1028.htm
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It is possiable. Records say that he did come to America, and before Colombus. It is a matter of pure opinion.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_Hoei-Shin_discover_Americ...
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Then we see that circulating currents can take you from China, up the east coast of Japan, past Korea, along the Aleutians, south of Alaska, down the west coast of America to Mexico. The same currents carry you back to China on a westward p...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_hoei_shin's_route_to...
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I refer to the zeal with which Buddhist monks wandered for centuries forth from China, through regions so remote, and among perils of so trying a nature, that the journey of Hoei-shin and of his predecessors seems, when we study the route, and allow that ... of America. For, little as we have of the record of Hoei-shin,
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www.sacred-texts.com/earth/fu/fu12.htm
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based their account of Fusang was the report of a Buddhist monk or missionary named Hoei-shin (Schin or Shên), 1 who, in the year 499 A.D., returned from a long journey to the East. ... In 1869, some one who had read or heard of Neumann's work on the Buddhist discovery of America, placed in the "Notes and Queries on...
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sacred-texts.com/earth/fu/fu01.htm
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With current historical scholarship, none but the most myopically Eurocentric embrace the myth that Columbus "discovered" America in 1492. ... But it was in 499, a Chinese Buddhist missionary, Hoei-Shin, came back from a long voyage and told ... The very simplicity of that enormous journey is the most convincing argument of all.
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(Jackson, 79) In the sixth century CE, Hoei-Shin and four other monks ... of the Scandinavians who would journey to North America many centuries later. ...
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www.millersville.edu/~columbus/papers/wrhagen.html
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Ugly Chinese Org. ... Hui-shen or Hoei-shin did not take part in the AD 458 journey to Fusang, and he merely returned to China in AD 499. My speculation is that the trips from China to ancient America was frequent enough for Hui-shen to return to China on a different ship.
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www.uglychinese.org/japanese.htm
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The second remarkable feature in Hwui Shan’s story is the almost incredible accuracy of the distance and direction he gave for a journey from Asia to America, and the plausibility of his route.
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www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1966/3/19...
www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1966/3/1966_3_42.shtml
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