Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s5.t11.2

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Account of Buddhism Sent from the South Seas is one of important works of Yi Jing and is codified in the second year of Tianshou (691 CE) of Empress Wu Zetian. When Yi Jing came back from India, he stayed in Srivijaya Empire in South Sea (present-day Sumatra, Indonesia) on the way. During his stay, he wrote *Account of Buddhism Sent from the South Seas* and *Great Monk's Biography Who Seek the Doctrine from Tang to India*. After the books were written down, Yi Jing asked Dajin, a Chinese monk to take a petition to the Emperor for building temple in the West, a copy each of *Account of Buddhism Sent from the South Seas* and *Great Monk's Biography Who Seek the Doctrine from Tang to India* as well as 10 other new translated scriptures for submission at the Imperial Court in Chang'an.