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Songyun
Chinese Buddhist monk, traveler, and writer during the Northern & Southern dynastic period · Writers
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.
Songyun is read about 19 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 18 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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![Song Yun met with Mihirakula, the King of the Alchon Huns.[2]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Mihirakula_portrait.jpg/500px-Mihirakula_portrait.jpg)
About this person
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.
