The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.154

c5.154

518 Sung Yun, a native of T‘un-huang in Little Tibet, is sent by the Empress of the Northern Wei dynasty, in company with Hui-sang, a bhikshu of the temple of Loyang, to search for Buddhist books in the western countries. Travelling probably to Khotan, and across the Tsung-ling mountains, Sung-yun visited Gandhāra, then in possession of the Ye-t‘a (Ephthalites), and under a king of the Laelih dynasty; and, after reaching Peshawar and Nagarāhāra, returned to China in A.D. 521, with 170 volumes of the Great Development series.—Beal’s *Si-yu-ki*, i, Int. xv ff.