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Songyun

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Chinese Buddhist monk, traveler, and writer during the Northern & Southern dynastic period

WritersLived 500 to 600 · aged 100
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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.

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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.

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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 500 to 600 · aged 100
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7 languages

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