In the fifth century AD, around five centuries after Sakyamuni's demise, the monk Ma Ming started using music to accompany his sermons, bringing about the conversion on one occasion of 500 princelings.
在西元五世紀，佛滅五百年左右，大乘佛教的馬鳴和尚，創作音樂，並親自擊鐘扣鼓，調和琴瑟，當他用這個音樂來演講佛法要義時，城中的五百位王子同時開悟，一起出家。