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	East Asian History Sourcebook: Ch'ing-Tsing: Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion ...
		Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion in China, with a Preface, composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 A.D. [Horne Introduction]:
		The Nestorian sect of Christians still exists in Western Asia and was in a thriving condition in Syria in the sixth century.
		Nestorian Christianity, shut off from its mother land by the rise of the Mohammedan powers in between, proved unable to resist the inroads of ignorance and superstition and changing political affairs.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/eastasia/781nestorian.html (1727 words)

	Nestorian Stele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The stele documents the existence of Christian communities in several cities in northern China and reveals that the church had received recognition by the Tang Emperor Dezong.
		The stele was unearthed in late Ming Dynasty (between 1623 and 1625) beside Chongren Temple (崇仁寺), where it was housed for several centuries.
		The Nestorian Stone has attracted the attention of some anti-Christian groups, who argue that the stone is a fake or that the inscriptions were modified by the Jesuits who served in the Ming Court.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nestorian_Stele (345 words)

	Nestorianism - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nestorianism is commonly portrayed as the belief that Jesus Christ consisted of two separate persons, one human and one divine.
		Nestorianism was rejected as heretical by the Council of Ephesus in 431, which held that Christ consisted of only one person with two natures, one human and one divine.
		Nestorianism was the first Christian tradition to reach China (in 635), and about the same time penetrated into Mongolia, and its relics can still be seen in Chinese cities such as Xi'an.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /n/ne/nestorianism.html (1118 words)

	Stele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A stele (or stela) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerary or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living inscribed, carved in relief or painted onto the slab.
		An informative stele of Tiglath-Pileser III is preserved in the British Museum.
		A Buddhist Stele from China, Northern Wei period, built in the early 6th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stele (298 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia - The Church in China
		This inscription is generally considered as emanating from Nestorians; but this is supported only by circumstantial evidence, for it must be remarked that nothing in it is characteristic of Nestorianism.
		The Nestorians were successful in converting the Keraits to Christianity at the beginning of the eleventh century, as related by the Christian historian, Bar Hebræus.
		The Nestorians had a number of bishoprics throughout Asia and two archbishoprics, one at Cambalue (Peking), one at Tangut (Tanchet); there is even a record of a Chinese Nestorian, Mar Jabalaha (b.
	www.nestorian.org /catholic_encyclopedia_-_the_ch.html (765 words)

	Nestorian tablet
		This is the top of the Nestorian Tablet, which is housed in the Forest of Steles Museum in Xi'an.
		I'll start with the word "stele." This is a word applied to the tall marble or granite stone tablets on which Chinese have for centuries carved records of happenings, poems, philosophies, and whatnot.
		Nestorian Christianity flourished for a little over 100 years, but in 845, when the emperor banned all religions other than Confucianism, it faded.
	www.lynnsupdate.com /nestorian_tablet.htm (393 words)

	Xi'an Forest of Stone Steles Museum
		Shitai Xiaojing (stele engraved with the Canon of Filial Piety) and Kaicheng Shijing (steles engraved with the Confucian Classics) of the Tang Dynasty were originally kept in the Imperial Academy in Wu Ben District of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty (in the vicinity of the present Wen Yi Street, southern Xi'an).
		This stele was unearthed in the western suburb of Xi'an in 1945 and moved to the Forest of Steles in 1949.
		This stele was erected when he climbed Yishan Mountains (now south-east of Zouxian County, Shandong Province) in the 28th year of his reign (219BC) on one of his inspection tours, in praise of his contribution to the abolition of the system of enfeoffment and the establishment of the system of prefectures and counties.
	ulink.ourfamily.com /city/cityguides/xian/forest.htm (6537 words)

	Nestorianism Online Research :: Information about Nestorianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nestorianism is the Christian Doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, rather than as a unified person.
		Nestorianism as a Christological heresy originated in the Church in the 5th century out of an attempt to rationally explain and understand the incarnation of the divine Logos, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity as the man Jesus Christ.
		Nestorianism teaches that the human and divine essences of Christ are separate and that there are two persons, the man Jesus Christ and the divine Logos, which dwelt in the man. Thus, Nestorians reject such terminology as "God suffered" or "God was crucified", because they believe that the man Jesus Christ suffered.
	www.ncweddingplanner.com /search/Nestorianism.html (1144 words)

	nestorian stele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 liúxíng Zhōngguó béi, abbreviated 大秦景教碑) is a Tang Chinese stele erected in 781 which celebrates the accomplishments of the Nestorian Christian community in China.
		It also paid tributes to missionaries and benefactors of the church, which are known to have arrived in China by 640.
		The Nestorian Stone has attracted the attention of some anti-Catholic groups, who argue that the stone is a fake or that the inscriptions were modified by the Jesuits who served in the Ming Court.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /nestorian_stele.html (361 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stele Forest (碑林; pinyin: Bēilín), aka '''Xi'an Stele Forest Museum''' or '''Xi'an Beilin Museum''', is a museum for Stela steles and stone sculptures which is located in Xi'an, China.
		The Stele Forest was built in the Song Dynasty (1087) for the preservation of ''Kaichengshijing Stele'' which was made in the Tang Dynasty.
		Caoquan Stele* (曹全碑, Han Dynasty) Simafang Stele* (司马芳碑, Jin Dynasty) Kaichengshijing Stele* (开成石经碑, Tang Dynasty) Nestorian Stele* (大秦景教流行中国碑, Tang Dynasty)
	www.mauspfeil.net /Stele_Forest.html (243 words)

	Nestorian Christians - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Nestorian Christians
		He was banished for maintaining that Mary was the mother of the man Jesus only, and therefore should not be called the mother of God.
		Today the Nestorian Church is found in small communities in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and India.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Nestorian+Christians (215 words)

	Xi'an LIVE - Life & Entertainment in Xi'an China
		Stele Forest (碑林; pinyin: Bēilín), aka Xi'an Stele Forest Museum or Xi'an Beilin Museum, is a museum for steles and stone sculptures.
		The Stele Forest was built in the Song Dynasty (1087) for the preservation of Kaichengshijing Stele which was made in the Tang Dynasty.
		The stonework is exhibited in the Stele Forest museum of Xi'an (Shifachi, Baitiwu, Telebiao and Qingzhui) and museum of the University of Pennsylvania, USA (Quanmaogua and Saluzi) separately.
	www.xian-live.com /Travel-stele.htm (276 words)

	Beilín Bówùguan (Forest of Stelae) \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Xian \| Frommers.com
		In the main courtyard, the first major stele was composed by the Xuánzong emperor in 745; the exposition on filial piety pre-dated the influential "three character classic" (san zì jing).
		Nestorian Christians were drummed out of the Church for maintaining that Jesus was both human and divine and that Mary was the mother of "the man Jesus," and not the mother of God.
		The stele records the visit of a Nestorian priest to Cháng'an and the founding of a Nestorian chapel, providing evidence of a Nestorian presence in China as early as A.D. The influence of other faiths is clear -- the Maltese cross is set amid Daoist clouds, supported by a Buddhist lotus flower.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/xian/A32791.html (500 words)

	Shroro: The Syriac Orthodox Christian Digest
		Christianity reached Tang dynasty China in the 7th century via monks from Syria, and the notable Nestorian Christian monument devoted to the Christian religion-faith's establishment in China during the reign of Tang Taizong in Xi-An is a material testimony to this fact.
		There are three crosses on the figure, one on the headband, one worn around his neck as a pendant, and another on top of the staff he bears in his left hand.
		In May of 2004 there was an exhibition in London of photographs of Nestorian tombstones from the city of Quanzhou in Fujian province, South China.
	www.socdigest.org /articles/03oct05.html (1432 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nestorianism Nestorianism is the error that Jesus is two distinct persons.
		Nestorianism States that the two natures of Christ were so separated from each other that they were "not in contact"; the problem here is that worship of the human Jesus would then...
		Nestorianism was rejected at the Council of Ephesus (431), one of the seven ecumenical councils.
	nestorianism.iqexpand.com (1196 words)

	Wandering in the East
		The Nestorian church is also known as the Eastern Syrian (and, beginning in the nineteenth century, as the Assyrian) church.
		The principal seat of the Nestorian church in Ctesiphon-Seleucia, near ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia, was an important post in trade between Europe and Asia, a meeting place of caravans from the Arabian peninsula, central Asia, India and China, and a stage in the water-borne traffic on the Euphrates, connecting with the Persian Gulf.
		Nestorians made the most of their central location, learned the languages of their neighbors, and became vigorous merchants and proselytizers.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/thomasbook/ch19.html (1967 words)

	Religions in China - Nestorianism (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		The Nestorian or Assyrian Church is a kind of oriental national church ("church of the east") that was opposed against the Roman church after the concile of Ephesus in 431.
		There is a bilingue stele in Chinese and Syrian (Ugaritian) in the prefecture of Xi'an è¥¿å®åº (older texts write: Si-ngan-fu), erected in 781 and rediscovered in 1625 that reports the existence of Nestorian (Chinese: Niesituoli è¶æè«é) parishes in China since the begin of the 7th century.
		Nestorian monks lived in a "Persian" Yiningfang Monastery å¤§ç§¦ç¾©å¯§åå¯º in Xi'an, and the first missionary was a Persian called "Aluoben" (Alopen) é¿ç¾æ¬.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /Literature/Religion/nestorianism.html (418 words)

	The Monks of Kublai Khan
		Nestorian Christians) is not assured, but it is to be hoped earnestly that the Great Powers will find some portion of the Nestorian's ancient country in which they may be settled once and for all and allowed to follow their ancient religion and serve God in peace and security.
		What became of the Nestorians after their persecution by the Emperor Wu-tsung in 845 is not known with certainty, but Professor Saeki thinks that some remained in China, and that the greater number of the rest retreated to the west and joined the Assyrian Church in Turkestan.
		The mountain Nestorians to the present day maintain that their Mar Shim'un is entitled to be regarded as the Patriarch of the Nestorians, as being a descendant of the Mar Shim'un, who was Patriarch in 1450.
	www.aina.org /books/mokk/mokk.htm (21519 words)

	Category:Assyrian Church of the East - TheBestLinks.com - Christology, Nestorianism, 628, 551, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was devided from the other apostolic churches by the Nestorian Schism during the 4th century.
		In the west the church it is often referred to as the Nestorian Church.
		This, and not Nestorianism, is the teaching of the Nestorian Church.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Category__3A__Assyrian_Church_of_the_East.html (306 words)

	Nestorianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The origin of this confusion is mostly historical and linguistic: for example, the Greeks had two words for 'person', which translated poorly into Syriac, and the meaning of these terms were not even quite settled during Nestorius's lifetime.
		The condemning pronouncement of the Council resulted in the Nestorian Schism and the separation of the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	pda.molinu.com /wiki/en/ne/Nestorianism.htm (1132 words)

	- China Travel Destination
		The forerunner of the museum was the state university in the capital city Changan of the Tang China, where a set of stone monuments with inscribed Confucian classics was first erected.
		During the Song Dynasty, in 1090, these steles, along with some others, were relocated to the present site, and in the coming centuries the museum and its collection were further expanded.
		The Classic of Filial Piety, for instance, was prefaced and hand-written by the Xuanzong Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in the year 745; the text is engraved on four stelae each measuring five meters (15 feet) in height and 3 meters (9 feet) across.
	www.allchinatours.com /destinations/Xian-guide.htm (1376 words)

	Nestorianism - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Historical references to Nestorians are to the Assyrian Church of the East, commonly described as Nestorian because it refused to drop support for Nestorius and denounce him as an heretic.
		However the church of the east does not teach Nestorianism, but rather teaches the view of Babai the Great, that Christ has two qnome (essences) which are unmingled and eternally united in one parsopa (personality).
		Also during this time many Nestorian scholars, having escaped the Byzantines, settled in Gundishapur, Persia, and brought with them many ancient Greco-Roman philosophical, scientific and literary texts.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Nestorianism (1332 words)

	The Jesus Sutras : Rediscovering the Lost Scrolls of Taoist Christianity by
		He seems to imagine the Nestorians as ecologists based on a shaky interpretation of a single Chinese character (zhen), and supposes them free of the original sin of believing in original sin, based on equally scanty evidence.
		First, there is an important difference between the approach Jing Jing, the author of the Nestorian stele, took in the 8th Century, and the later "Jesus Sutras" translated in earlier chapters.
		His "Church of the East" is an amalgam of the Nestorians, the Syriac rite Churches (Orthodox, Catholic or Independent), and the Copts (Orthodox, Catholic, or Independent).
	www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-0345434242.html (2678 words)

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		The "Nestorian" identification of the eastern churches sprouted from the theological and political disputes of the fourth and fifth centuries.
		In the Tarim Basin--a well known hot-spot of diverse religious beliefs--a cache of Nestorian texts translated from Syriac (the official language of the Nestorian church) into Sogdian was discovered in the early twentieth century.
		The Nestorian faith by the Mongol period (13th century), intermixed with indigenous religious practice, is thought to have been quite prosperous among the nomads.
	depts.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/exhibit/religion/nestorians/essay.html (951 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Christ on the Silk Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the early twentieth century the stele stood near a Buddhist temple, a mile outside the western gate of Xi’an.
		The stele dates itself to Sunday, February 4, 781, and was composed by a Christian priest whose name is given in Chinese as Jingjing and in Persian as Adam.
		The presence of an influential Nestorian church in late thirteenth-century China is confirmed by numerous literary sources, including the journal of Bar Sauma (a Nestorian monk from northern China), the writings of the Western monk John of Montecorvino, and those of Marco Polo.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=20-03-030-f (4420 words)

	ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the West it is often known, inaccurately, as the Nestorian Church.
		The Assyrian Church was split from the western churches as a result of the Nestorian schism in 431, but the theology of the Assyrian church cannot be defined as Nestorianism.
		At the time of the arrival of the Nestorian refugees from Edessa, the prelate was Babaeus or Babowai (sometimes also called 'Babai', not to be confused with 'Babai the Great') (457-484), who appears to have received them with open arms.
	www.ratemyweight.com /Assyrian_Church_of_the_East (1895 words)

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