Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s4.t2.44

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Dynasty) who went westward for seeking sutra, this stupa is “more than 40 zhang high, with jeweleries decorated. Everyone who has seen it will praise it magnificent and stately, and other stupa cannot compare with it,” (*Biography of Faxian*). According to the records of chapter five, “Traveling notes of Song Yun and Hui Sheng” of Yang Xuanzhi (in the Northern Wei Dynasty) ‘*Records of Qielan Temple in Luoyang*: in 520’, when Song Yun and Hui Sheng