Seven years later a delegation came from Tunhuang to Ch'ang-an to request rehabilitation. They were made a prefecture and a number of manuscripts were given to them from the Ch'ang-an temples. It was thus that the Ch'an-gan pien-wen may well have gone west.
七年後敦煌代表團到長安請求歸義，唐於是封其為歸義郡，並賜予長安廟宇中的許多抄本，長安僅存的變文可能就這樣流入西域。