In Asia, the spread of Buddhism led to large-scale ongoing <answer>translation</answer> efforts spanning well over a thousand years. The Tangut Empire was especially efficient in such efforts; exploiting the then newly invented block printing, and with the full support of the government (contemporary sources describe the Emperor and his mother personally contributing to the <answer>translation</answer> effort, alongside sages of various nationalities), the Tanguts took mere decades to translate volumes that had taken the Chinese centuries to render.[citation needed]
Buddhism's spread led to what large-scale effort?
translation