Song Yun or Songyun | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | late 5th or early 6th cent. |
| Died | 6th cent. |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Mahayana |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Northern Wei Dynasty |
| Period in office | fl. 510s & 520s |
| Song Yun | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 宋雲 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 宋云 | ||||||||
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Song Yun or Songyun (fl. 510s & 520s) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled to medieval India from the Tuoba Northern Wei kingdom during China's Northern and Southern dynastic period at the behest of the Empress Hu. He and his companions Huisheng, Fali, and Zheng or Wang Fouze left the Wei capital Luoyang on foot in 518 and returned in the winter of 522 with 170 Buddhist scriptures.[1] Song and Hui's accounts of their journey are now lost but much of their information was preserved in other texts.
- ^ Chavannes 1903, pp. 379–380
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