Who ruled
- Rouran Khaganate Chounu Khan 508–520
And beyond the steppe
- China Northern Wei Emperor Xuanwu 499–515
- Iran Sasanian Kavad I 498–531
- Korea Goguryeo Munja 491–519
- Byzantium Leonid Anastasius I 491–518
Eastern steppe
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Chounu sends the monk Hongxuan to the Wei court with a jewelled image, the earliest notice of Buddhism at the Rouran court
