final!!! Flashcards
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Nisi Chilag
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- the trade between two jewish refugees
- within the letter, the jew writing has travelled a lot and is in a jewish refugee camp
- giving advice to other travellers
2
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Ennin
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- monk : travelled from japan to china
- part of an embassy that japan sent
- stayed in ch’ing lung ssu and met foreigners
- where he learnt of the attrocities being done to foreigners during the tang dynasty
3
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Rabban Sauma
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- turkic chinese monk
- on a pilgrimaged from mongol controlled china to jerusalem
- tiesin european crusades and why he travelled towards paris to jerusalem
4
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Islam Akhun
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- master of forgeries
- from india during the surge of interest in medical manuscripts
- did forgeries so well, he was able to fool most scholas, but auriel stein
- pushed stein to explore the ancient world and in turn, prove these manuscripts were forged
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Gong Dejin
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- khotanese nun in dunhuang document
- existence of a woman group who had secured friendships and financial support for those in said group
- all members were treated equally and can be considered a union in today’s society
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Chen Yi’an
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- li shengduo’s nephew
- was a prominent figure of the forgeries in the early 20th century
- is said to be responsible for most forgeries
- his and li shengduo’s names were misunderstood as the same, causing confusion in the forgery speculations
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Three Realms Monastery
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- smaller monastery near dunhuang caves (mogao caves)
- these monks were responsible for the sealing of cave 17
- visa sambhava was the reasoning for documents being in the cave
- stein disregarded order of said cave, but it was a fault
8
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Xuanzong
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- 7th century emperor
- Tang Dynasty china
- sponsor of nastorian stele
- was very nice emperor
9
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Zhang Huaishen
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- nephew of Yichao
- sponsored caves
- army general, dunhuang
- married someone from khotan
- 9th century
10
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Bixinsi
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- from a manichaean hymn from dunhuang cave
- translates to malice, vihimsa
- a belief of the manichaean church -> chinese influence
11
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Marco Polo Bridge
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- bridge build in mongol period
- allowed travel and trad across grand canal in china
- named after marco polo who allegedly travelled to china during the mongol, period
12
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Visa Sambhava
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- king of khotan
- supported the translations of buddhist texts onto khotanese
- khotan was an important center of buddhist learning and culture
- connected to the library cave
13
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Vaishravana
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- king of khotan was a descendent
- guardian of the north
- legend of vaishravana projected to the legacy of khotan
- connection to india
14
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Gomati Monastery
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- monastery in khotan
- faxian visited
- noted the silent lifestyle within monastery
- since faxian travelled here, so did xuanzang
15
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Shosoin
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- treasure of todai-ji temple in japan
- has treasures from since the nara period or 8th century
- artifacts are connected to emperor shomu
16
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John of Plano Carpini
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- went to find good and bad qualties of mongols
- extremely racist and he documented and reported back to the pope who sent him
- talked about how they were cannibals and their barbaric nature
17
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Great Khan
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- mongolian title equal that of emperor
- genghis khan was the first, but marco polo meets kublai khan
- seen as the most successful military in world history
- king was called this when marco polo visited beijing
18
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Ya qub Beg
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- self-established ruler of kashgaria, region occupied by Qing China (Xinjiang)
- highly sought after area for the Great Game
- the invasion of Xinjiang in the late 19th century
19
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Khotan
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- largest city in south western xinjiang
- important hub for religions
- wealthy city with people interested in learning and culture
- facilitated many documents and the learning of culture
19
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Rawak stupa
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- buddhist stupa in Khotan
- stein visited this area
- was explored by stein in early 20th century
20
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Shi Wirkak
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- tomb in chang’an
- shows how he was an immigrant and ajusted to the chinese culture
- sogdian tomb in chinese style
- he was very virtuous
21
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Aluoben
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- first christian to arrive in chang’an
- established earliest church of the east that had lots of iranians and sogdians
- depicted in the nastorian stele that depicts history of the church
22
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Wang Daoshi
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- also known as abbot wang
- taoist priest at mogao caves
- he was the one who sold documents to stein and pelliot in 1907 (ish)
23
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Siddhabhadra
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- in the book of zambasta in khotan
- warns men of the trickery of women
- shows the religious bias towards men and the place of women in society
- he is the main character
24
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Li Shengduo
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- chinese scholar who may have forged document from dunhuang
- addresses the importance of authenticating MSS
- rong xinziang believe li did not forge them himself due to seal
25
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Kojima Yasushi
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- the japanese collector who had most of nastorian forged(?) documents
- the collection of whom Toru studied
- bought from china from yi’an
26
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Haneda Toru
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- professor at kyoto university
- studied MS sold to japan
- MS are in private collection and have not been seen by anyone else
- main guy who said these documents were forged
- suspected li shengdo, but it was most likely yi’an
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Chi’ing-lung-ssu
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- green dragon temple ennin monk stayed at when in china
- met lots of foreigners in china
- first written document about china from a foreigner
- moon and diamond
- wher ennin wrote of the hatred foreigners recieved in china
- 9th century
28
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Chuan fabao ji (book/document)
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- rong xinjiang’s general study of dunhuang
- chan’s work
- clear transmission of teachings form patriarch to patriarch
29
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Horseback Divination of Confucius (book/document)
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- diviniation manual associated with Confucius found in dunhuang
- works on divining for specific occasions
- tests on illness, marriage, death, plus others are included (little things in life)
- divination was important for people’s lives, superstitions
- confucius linked to this - because he wasn’t known for this believe
