The Xi'an Stele or the Jingjiao Stele (Chinese: 景教碑; pinyin: Jǐngjiào bēi), sometimes translated as the "Nestorian Stele," is a Tang Chinese stele erected...
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The Stele Forest or Beilin Museum is a museum for steles and stone sculptures in Beilin District in Xi'an, Northwest China. The museum, which is housed...
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stelae. Stele of Vespasian Code of Hammurabi Gwanggaeto Stele King Ezana's Stela Kul Tigin Lemnos stela Lapis Niger Mesha Stele Naram-Sin Xi'an Stele Pig...
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Jingjiao Documents (section The Xi'an Stele)
suspected of being modern forgeries; see below ref. to Lin & Rong. The Xi'an Stele was erected in 781 to commemorate the propagation of the Da Qin Luminous...
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from Byzantine Syria.[citation needed] He is known exclusively from the Xi'an Stele, which describes his arrival in the Tang capital of Chang'an in 635 and...
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in Xi'an (then known as Chang'an) in 635 along the Silk Road. The Nestorian Stele, now located in Xi'an's Beilin Museum, is a Tang Chinese stele erected...
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community in Chang'an erected a tablet known as the Xi'an Stele on the grounds of a local monastery. The stele contains a long inscription in Chinese with Syriac...
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Christian stele was unearthed in Xi'an in 1625, it, too, was put on the back of a tortoise. In 1907, this so-called Xi'an Stele was moved to the Stele Forest...
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prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. It is named after the well-known Xi'an Stele Forest, and Small Wild Goose...
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Cross Temple, Fangshan (section Stone steles)
primary sources of Nestorian Christianity in the Tang dynasty is the Xi'an Stele. It was made around 781 with its text written by the Nestorian monk Adam...
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