# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/songyun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:11:20.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/songyun"
name: "Songyun"
slug: "songyun"
description: "Song Yun or Songyun 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. Song and Hui's accounts of their journey are now lost but much of their information was preserved in other texts."
tagline: "Chinese Buddhist monk, traveler, and writer during the Northern & Southern dynastic period"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "500"
deathDate: "600"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.354105333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%8B%E9%9B%B2"
    title: "宋雲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سونج يون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songyun_(Dunhuang)"
    title: "Songyun (Dunhuang)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yun"
    title: "Song Yun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Yun"
    title: "Song Yun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%8B%E9%9B%B2"
    title: "宋雲"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سونگ یون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354548"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump