Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c13.43

v2.c13.43

During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Yunnan also was incorporated into the Chinese empire. There were Indian monks who arrived in China via the Yunnan-Burma route. The Indian monk Zhikong (Dhyanabhadra) came to Yunnan from India around the year 1295 and then from there travelled further north into China. There is a reason to believe that this route was used regularly, although the textual and archaeological evidence for this is sparse.