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Scholar and writer Wu Ch’eng-en is born.

Wu publicly conforms to literary expectations, writing stories that imitate Han literature.

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Ming dynasty scholars and authors promote literature that copies Han dynasty prose (206 BCE-220 CE) and early T’ang poetry (written before 770 CE).

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Song dynasty

Buddhism goes underground, its teachings partly adopted by Confucianism and Taoism.

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T’ang Emperor Wuzong, who detests Buddhists as loafers and beggars, orders the destruction of 4,600 Buddhist monasteries and 40,000 temples in China, leaving about 250,000 Buddhists monks and nuns homeless.

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Hsuan Tsang returns to China and is welcomed by the emperor. He spends the rest of his life translating the sutras.

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Hsuan Tsang travels in regions that are now India, Pakistan, and Nepal.

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Hsuan Tsang states that a dream has convinced him to go to India to study at Buddhist monasteries there and bring back sutras to China for translation.

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T’ang dynasty is founded (holds power from 618-907).

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The first documented translation of Buddhist scriptures into Chinese.

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Chinese emissaries to India bring missionaries and sutras back home with them, introducing Buddhism to China.