Just imagine, the earliest Chinese who wanted to read the Buddhist scriptures would have to spend more than a decade going to the western regions to collect them, then another ten or so years with the arduous task of copying them out one character at a time.
像以往中國人要讀佛經，需要花上十幾年到西域取經，取了經後，再花十幾年抄經，真是字字皆辛苦。