In accordance with the ascendance of Buddhism as the national religion at the end of the eighth century, the translation of Buddhist scriptures became a national project of the kingdom; thus the work of collecting and translating Buddhist scriptures from India encyclopedically and systematically was begun and completed in the space of just a few decades.
八世紀末、仏教が国教となるのにともない、仏典翻訳は王国の国家事業となり、隣国インドより網羅的、体系的に仏典を収集し、翻訳する作業が開始され、数十年の短期間で一挙に完遂された。