Chinese traveller 'Sungyun' was came to India in:

60th to 62nd B.P.S.C. (Pre) 2016

A. 515 AD to 520 AD
B. 525 AD to 529 AD
C. 545 AD to 552 AD
D. 592 AD to 597 AD
E. None of the above/More than one of the above

Answer: 515 AD to 520 AD

Option a is the correct answer. Sungyun came to India in 515 CE along with the monk 'Hui Zheng, Fa Li, and Zheng Fouze', during the reign of Buddhist Empress Hu who belongs to the 'Northern Wei Dynasty. Song Yun, who was originally from Dunhuang in China. In 518 they left Wei capital Luoyang and returned in the winter of 520 CE along with 117 Mahayana Buddhist texts. Fortunately, several valuable pieces of information about their journey have been conserved in Loyang Jielanji of Yang Xianzhi and other texts. He visited the Swat valley in northwestern India and wrote the account of the Gandhara dynasty.

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