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stone, in both Syriac and Chinese. In some cases, the Chinese names are phonetically close to the Syriac originals, but in many other cases, they bear little resemblance to them. Some of the Church of the East monks had distinctive Persian names (such as Isadsafas, Gushnasap), suggesting that they might have come from
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Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff ; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby
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on 7 May 780. The names of several higher clergy (one bishop, two chorepiscopi and two archdeacons) and around seventy monks or priests are listed. The names of the higher clergy appear on the front of the stone while those of the priests and monks are inscribed in rows along the narrow sides of the
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An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China : delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from
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of the text, and a Latin translation. This was perhaps the first sizeable Chinese text made available in its original form to the European public. A sophisticated romanization system, reflecting Chinese tones, used to transcribe the text, was the one developed earlier by
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On top of the tablet, there is a cross. Below this headpiece is a long Chinese inscription, consisting of around 1,900 Chinese characters, sometimes glossed in Syriac (several sentences amounting to about 50 Syriac words). Calling
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The Xi'an Stele attracted the attention of some anti-Christian, Protestant anti-Catholic, or Catholic anti-Jesuit groups in the 17th century, who argued that the stone was a fake or that the inscriptions had been modified by the
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and elsewhere from a somewhat later period. There are also two much later stelae (from 960 and 1365) presenting a curious mix of Christian and Buddhist aspects, which are preserved at the site of the former
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initially had "grave doubts", but eventually changed his mind in the light of later scholarship, in favor of the stele's genuineness. The defenders included some non-Jesuit scholars, such as
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The original Xi'an Stele remains in the Forest of Steles. It is now exhibited in the museum's Room Number 2, and is the first stele on the left after the entry. When the official
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one thousand and ninety-two, the Lord Yazedbuzid, Priest and Vicar-episcopal of Cumdan the royal city, son of the enlightened Mailas, Priest of
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Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity Vol 1: Festschrift in Honor of Roman Malek S.V.D. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
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Ding, Wang (2006). "Remnants of Christianity from Chinese Central Asia in Medieval ages". In Malek, Roman; Hofrichter, Peter (eds.).
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in 1907 planning to take the monument for himself to Europe. Local authorities prevented him and moved the stele, complete with its
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The Lost History of Christianity: the Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and How It Died
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Since the late 19th century a number of European scholars opined in favor of somehow getting the stele out of China and into the
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The Nestorian Monument: An Ancient Record of Christianity in China, with Special Reference to the expedition of Frits V. Holm...
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Holm had an exact copy of the stele made for him and had the replica stele shipped to New York, planning to sell it to the
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Paul Pelliott, "L'inscription nestorienne de Si-ngan-fou", ed. avec supléments par Antonino Forte, Kyoto et Paris, 1996.
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and two young Chinese Christians who visited Rome in the 1650s and 1660s: Boym's traveling companion Andreas Zheng (
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was promulgated in 2003, the stele was included into this short list of particularly valuable and important items.
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describing the existence of Christian communities in several cities in northern China. It reveals that the initial
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or elsewhere in Persia, but most of them had common Christian names or the kind of compound Syriac name (such as
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An examination of the ancient orthography of the Jews, and of the original state of the text of the Hebrew Bible
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My Nestorian Adventure in China: A Popular Account of the Holm-Nestorian Expedition to Sian-Fu and Its Results
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The first publication of the original Chinese and Syriac text of the inscription in Europe is attributed to
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in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and in later eras also used to refer to the Syriac Christian churches).
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From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia
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From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia
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By the 19th century, the debate had become less sectarian and more scholarly. Notable skeptics included
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suggests that Matthaeus Sina may have been the person who traveled overland from China to Europe with
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edited by Kircher (1667) included a reproduction of the original inscription in Chinese characters,
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Large photograph of a rubbing of the stele from University of Birmingham (scroll to bottom of page)
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Stele text in English from researchers at Fordham University; actually 1855 translation of A. Wiley
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Persian Christians at the Chinese Court: The Xi'an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East
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Persian Christians at the Chinese Court: The Xi'an Stele and the Early Medieval Church of the East
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A Monument Commemorating the Propagation of the Ta-Chin Luminous Religion in the Middle Kingdom
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Photos of a replica of the Nestorian Stele in Xi-an; photos are of a replica located in Japan
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The newly discovered stele attracted attention of local intellectuals. It was Zhang Gengyou (
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who served in the Ming Court. The three most prominent early skeptics were the German-Dutch
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Nestorian Stele – Inscription: A slice of Christian history from China. Australian Museum
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The Story of a Stele: China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625-1916
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Early Jesuits attempted to claim that the stele was erected by a historical community of
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In 2006, a mortuary stone pillar with Church of the East inscriptions was discovered in
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Temple"). A gloss in Syriac identifies Jingjing with "Adam, priest, chorepiscopus and
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Reproduction of the original Chinese and Syriac text in Kircher's China Illustrata
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Title of the stele: "Stele to the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion (
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Light from the East: A Symposium on the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Churches
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Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China
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was the first European to visit the stele (some time between 1625 and 1628).
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Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin
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Numerous Christian gravestones have also been found in China in the
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Other copies of the stele and its tortoise can be found near Xi'an
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Manichaean and Christian Remains in Zayton (Quanzhou, South China)
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A MONUMENT TO THE SPREAD OF THE SYRIAN BRILLIANT TEACHING IN CHINA
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The Nestorian Monument: An Ancient Record of Christianity in China
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The work of the transcription and translation was carried out by
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list of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad
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Nestorian missionary enterprise, the story of a church on fire
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Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology
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euphemistic style (大秦寺僧㬌淨述, "Related by Jingjing, monk of the
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Yazedbuzid (Yisi in Chinese) helped the Tang dynasty general
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279 centimetres (9 ft 2 in) high with text in both
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Jingjiao: the Church of the East in China and Central Asia
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The stele is thought to have been buried in 845, during a
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The stele entitled 大秦景教流行中國碑 was erected in China in 781.
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Photos of the replica stele outside of the Daqin Pagoda
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of Sinistan" (ܐܕܡ ܩܫܝܫܐ ܘܟܘܪܐܦܝܣܩܘܦܐ ܘܦܐܦܫܝ ܕܨܝܢܝܣܬܐܢ,
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in 635. According to the stele, Alopen and his fellow
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Standard Mandarin
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Tang Chinese
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Christianity in China
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Church of the East

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