Daqin
Daqin Daqin (Ch:大秦) is the ancient Chinese ... other, hence the "mirror" name. It seems China never managed to directly reach the Roman ... based on second hand information. The name "Daqin" for Rome was used on Chinese maps ... See also Seres (the Roman name for China) Sino-Roman relations Daqin Pagoda Memorial ...
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Daqin Pagoda
Daqin Pagoda Remnants of the pagoda Daqin Pagoda (大秦塔) in Zhouzhi , Shaanxi Province, China is the remnant of the earliest surviving Christian church in China. The church and the monastery were built ... also referred to as the Nestorian church. Daqin is the name for the Roman ...
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Nestorian Stele
... The Nestorian Stele, Nestorian Stone, formally the Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin (大秦景教流行中國碑; pinyin: Dàqín Jǐngjiào ...
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Assyrian Church of the East
... it stretched in the medieval period to China and India: a monument found in Xi ... Hsi-an), the Tang-period capital of China (originally Chang'an), in Chinese and Syriac ... was the first Christian tradition to reach China (in 635), and about the same time ... Fu, at the time the capital of China, describes the introduction of Christianity into China from Persia in the reign of ...
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