Meanings
alternative Chingchuan
- A county of Pingliang, Gansu, China.
To the east of the ruins are groups of Sariputra stone reliquaries whose shape and decoration are similar to those found in Jingchuan county, Gansu province.
黑龙江省
1986, “Heilongjiang Province [黑龙江省]”, in Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2522 more examples
As huangdi, she ordered every prefecture in the land to build a Dayun Temple, each of which would be provided with a copy of the all-important Dayun Sutra. The reliquary in this exhibition is from the Dayun Temple in Jingzhou prefecture (now Jingchuan County, Gansu).
2004, James C. Y. Watt, “Art and History in China from the Third to the Eighth Century”, in China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, New York; New Haven; London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39, column 1Archaeologists discovered a box in Jingchuan County, China, which, according to its inscription, contained the cremated remains of the Buddha.[…] The archaeological team, led by Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology research fellow Hong Wu, is still determining whether the statues were also buried at that time along with the box.
2017 November 15, Kastalia Medrano, “BUDDHA’S REMAINS? CREMATED HUMAN DISCOVERED IN INSCRIBED BOX ALONGSIDE HUNDREDS OF ANCIENT STATUES IN CHINA”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2017, TECH & SCIENCE
Origin
- Mandarin涇川 /泾川
- EnglishJingchuan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇川 /泾川 (Jīngchuān).
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Chinese Cantonese 涇川 /泾川
- 涇川 /泾川 (ging¹ cyun¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 涇川 /泾川
- 涇川 /泾川 (Jīngchuān)county
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