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The kingdom of Dandan丹丹國

Liang Shu Zhuyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Various Foreign Peoples in the Book of Liang) 梁書 諸夷傳 · Yao Silian · 636 (Tang, 10th year of the Zhenguan era) · 1 passages · 130 Chinese characters · reading time 0.5 min

Liang Shu Zhuyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Various Foreign Peoples in the Book of Liang) Complete in one volume Thirty-six kingdoms as the Liang of the Southern dynasties saw them. The memorial in which King Muryeong of Baekje announced that his land had become a strong kingdom once more; the record in which Silla first appears under its own name; the tale of the Buddha's hair and the stupa of King Ashoka; and the legends from the far end of the sea, of Fusang and the Kingdom of Women — from the Southern Sea to the Western Regions, this is the broadest of all the accounts of the various foreign peoples.

1The kingdom of Dandan

丹丹國，中大通二年，其王遣使奉表曰：「伏承聖主至德仁治，信重三寶，佛法興顯，衆僧殷集，法事日盛，威嚴整肅。朝望國執，慈愍蒼生，八方六合，莫不歸服。化鄰諸天，非可言喻。不任慶善，若暫奉見尊足。謹奉送牙像及塔各二軀，幷獻火齊珠、吉貝、雜香藥等。」大同元年，復遣使獻金、銀、琉璃、雜寶、香藥等物。

As for the kingdom of Dandan (丹丹國), in the second year of Zhongdatong its king sent an envoy to present a memorial, saying: "Prostrate we have learned that the holy lord, with utmost virtue and benevolent rule, believes in the Three Treasures and holds them weighty, so that the Buddha's law rises and shines, the monks gather in throngs, the works of the dharma (法事) grow daily, and majesty is ordered and grave; and that the men of name at court hold the affairs of the kingdom and pity the living with compassion, so that the eight directions and the six quarters all submit. Your transforming rule neighbors upon the heavens, and words cannot tell it. We cannot contain our joy, and it is as if for a moment we were permitted to see your honored feet. We respectfully present two ivory images and two pagodas, and offer huoqi pearls, jibei and incenses and medicines of many kinds." In the first year of Datong he sent an envoy again and offered gold, silver, glass, precious things of many kinds, incenses and medicines and other goods.

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