Song Yun
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Song Yun was a Chinese Buddhist monk who was sent by the pious Buddhist Empress Hu of the Northern Wei Dynasty with other monastic companions including Hui Zheng, Fa Li and Zheng Fouze, to northwestern India to search for Buddhist texts. They left the Wei capital Luoyang, on foot in 518 and returned in the winter of 522 with 170 Buddhist scriptures.
Song Yun met with Mihirakula, the King of the Alchon Huns.
Faxian
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Faxian, also referred to as Fa-Hien, Fa-hsien and Sehi, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from China to India to acquire Buddhist texts. Starting his arduous journey about age 60, he visited sacred Buddhist sites in Central, South, and Southeast Asia between 399 and 412 CE, of which 10 years were spent in India.
An honorary Faxian statue in a Singapore museum.
12th-century woodblock print, 1st page of the Travels of Faxian (Record of the Buddhist Countries). The first sentences read: "In Chang'an, Faxian was distressed that the Vinaya collections was incomplete, so in the 2nd year of Hóngshǐ, or jǐ-hài in the sexagenary cycle [year 399/400], he agreed with Huijing, Daozheng, Huiying and Huiwéi to go seek out more of the Vinaya in India.
Fa Hien at the ruins of Ashoka palace
Faxian's route through India