 In 412 CE, the Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian landed at Laoshan, on the southern edge of the Shandong peninsula, and proceeded to Qingzhou to edit and translate the scriptures he had brought back from India.The Sui dynasty reestablished unity in 589, and the Tang dynasty (618-907) presided over the next golden age of China.For the earlier part of this period Shandong was ruled as part of Henan Circuit, one of the circuits (a political division).