Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Lantian.
The fossilized skull and jaw-bone of Lantien Man, dating from about 600,000 years ago, together with some very primitive stone tools, were found in Lantien County, Shensi Province in 1963 and 1964.
Chinese Literature
1973, Ku Wen, “Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China”, in 中国文学 [Chinese Literature], volume 8, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, pages 88–892 more examples
Choukoutien, 30 miles south‐ west of Peking, is only one of three sites where remains of the ape‐man have been found. Bones that are even older than Peking Man, though less numerous, have also been found at Yuanmou in Yunnan Province and at Lantien in Shensi.
1972 November 26, “CHINESE DIGGING FOR ANCIENT MAN”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2024, page 73After five years of listening to the Wuchen River chant the Dharma, Shan-tao left the Lantien area and moved to the nearby outskirts of Ch'ang-an, where he spent most of his remaining years preaching and painting pictures of the Pure Land.
1993, Bill Porter, Road to Heaven, San Francisco: Mercury House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98
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