Hidden treasures and intercultural encounters : studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia /

Hidden treasures and intercultural encounters : studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia / edited by Dietmar W. Winkler and Li Tang. - Wien : Piscataway, NJ : Lit ; Distributed in North America by Transaction, ©2009. - 395 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - Orientalia - patristica - oecumenica ; v. 1 . - Orientalia--patristica--oecumenica ; v. 1. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Syriac gravestones in the Tashkent History Museum / Some field notes and images of stone sculptures found at Nestorian sites in Inner Mongolia / The Persian contribution to Christianity in China : reflections in the Xi'an Fu Syriac inscriptions / Zwei neu gefundene syrische Grabsteine aus Kyrgyzstan / The discovery of Nestorian inscriptions from Almaliq, Xinjiang, China / A comparative study on the Nestorian inscriptions from Semirechie, Inner Mongolia and Quanzhou / A preliminary study on the Jingjiao inscription of Luoyang : text analysis, commentary and English translation / Ways to go and not to go in the contextualisation of the Jingjiao documents of the Tang period / A diatessaronic reading in the Chinese Nestorian texts / Notes on a bilingual prayer book from Bulayık / Reference to China in Syriac sources / The encounter of Nestorian Christianity with Tantric Buddhism in medieval China / When was the Temple of the Cross at Fangshan a "Christian temple"? / Jesuit Jingjiao : the "appropriation" of Tang Christianity by Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century / In search of King George / Medieval sources on the Naiman Christians and on their Prince Küchlüg Khan / Was Alopen a "missionary"? / Christians in Korea at the end of the 13th century / The mission field of the Apostle Thomas / On the Christians in Jiangnan during the Yuan Dynasty acording to "The gazetteer of Zhenjiang of the Zhishun period" 1329-1332 / East Syriac Christianity in Iraq : a glance at history from the First World War until today / A study on the Jingjiao chant music in the Tang and Yuan periods of China [in Chinese, with English abstract] / Monumenti Sinici : a remarkable Chinese hymn / The confluence of East and West in Nestorian art in China / Mark Dickens -- Tjalling Halbertsma -- Erica C.D. Hunter -- Wassilios Klein, Kuvatbek Tabaldiev -- Li Chonglin, Niu Ruji -- Niu Ruji -- Li Tang -- Max Deeg -- Zhihau Yao -- Peter Zieme -- Mar Aprem Mooken -- Huaiyu Chen -- Pierre Marsone -- Matteo Nicolini-Zani -- Maurizio Paolillo -- Li Tang -- Glen L. Thompson -- Alexander Toepel -- Jürgen Tubach -- Yin Xiaoping -- Dietmar W. Winkler -- Ge Chengyong -- Garry Moon Yuen Pang -- Xiaojing Yan.

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