Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s4.t4.3

v2.c14.s4.t4.3

In the second year of Xuan Qing (657 CE), he ordered Wang Xuance to go to India to deliver Buddha's cassock and act as a deputy ambassador to Liu Renkai in this envoy. Other people in the delegation included Liu Jiabin, who was responsible to keep the records of events; He Shouyi who was in charge of writing inscriptions; Wang Xuance's son Wang Lingmin and six other persons from royal families etc. According to the Chinese inscriptions, the Tang envoy to India found engraved on stone near Jilong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, the time of departure for this envoy was led by Wang Xuance in June of the Xian Qing third year (658 CE) of Tang Gaozong's rule, which also in all probability indicates to the time when this envoy left from Lhasa.