[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037) › 2.203 # 釋氏稽古略 2.203 釋氏稽古略 2.203 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.203](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.2.203) 魏胡太后。於丙申熙平元年遣宋雲偕比丘惠生往西域求未至經。自洛陽西行四千里至赤嶺乃出魏境。又西行再期至乾羅國而還。得佛經一百七十部。至此二月回達洛陽。魏國通有佛經四百十五部合一千九百一十九卷（魏書佛老志并經目）。 > The Empress Dowager Hu of the Wei, in the bingshen year, the first year of the Xiping reign era, dispatched Song Yun along with the monk Huisheng to the Western Regions to search for scriptures that had not yet arrived. Traveling four thousand li west from Luoyang, they reached the Chi Ridge and only then exited the borders of Wei. Traveling west again for two full years, they reached the country of Gandhara and returned, obtaining one hundred and seventy Buddhist scriptures. In the second month of this year, they arrived back in Luoyang. In total, the Wei state had four hundred and fifteen Buddhist scriptures, comprising one thousand nine hundred and nineteen fascicles (the Treatise on Buddhism and Daoism in the Book of Wei, together with the scripture catalogues). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.202](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.2.202) - [Next: 2.204](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.2.204) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.2.203) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.2.203](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.2.203) · Pramāṇa