Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c8.s1.14

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Yijing also had significant contributions in translation. He possessed flexible translation methods and his translation organisation featured exquisite division of labour. Yijing also compiled *A Thousand Sanskrit Words to Cultivate Buddhist Scripture Translator*. The book has 1,000 Chinese characters and is a Chinese-Sanskrit dictionary. During this period of 10ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ century, especially in the early Northern Song Dynasty, translation of Buddhist scripture in China reached another climax. In the seventh year of the Taiping Xingguo Period (982 CE), the emperor ordered to set up a translation school and renamed it as Chuanfa School the next year. The organisational scale and ability of the translation work during Northern Song was as big as that of the Tang Dynasty. It was managed and supported by senior officials of the government. They had a full-fledged organisation