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Song Yun (Chinese: 宋雲; traditional Chinese: 宋雲; pinyin: Sòng Yùn; Wade–Giles: Sung Yün) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who was sent by the devout Buddhist Empress Hu (胡 ?-528 CE) of the Northern Wei Dynasty with some companions including the monk Hui Zheng Fa Li and Zheng (or Wang) 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 Mahayana Buddhist texts.