The Nestorian Stele is erected at Chang'an

Assembled from 36 blocks · 1 evidence · 31 related

1. Story
2. A stone monument recording a century and a half of the Church of the East in China is raised in the Tang capital, in Chinese with a Syriac colophon. Buried at some point and rediscovered in the 1620s, it is the single most important documentary object for Christianity on the overland routes.
3. Knowledge
4. Chang'an
5. Tang Empire
6. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
7. The Nestorian Stele is erected at Chang'an
8. Connections
9. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
10. Chang'an
11. Tang Empire
12. Chang'an
13. Christianity
14. Limits of religious diffusion
15. Silk Road religious corridor
16. Alopen reaches Chang'an
17. The Nestorian Stele is erected at Chang'an
18. Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
19. Alopen received at the Tang court
20. The Xi'an stele is erected
21. Xi'an
22. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
23. Tang Empire
24. Zhang Qian returns to Chang'an
25. Alopen reaches Chang'an
26. Xuanzang travels to India and back
27. The Nestorian Stele is erected at Chang'an
28. Chang'an
29. Northern Tarim route
30. Gunpowder
31. Alopen reaches Chang'an
32. Tang conquest of Gaochang and the Anxi Protectorate
33. Battle of Talas
34. The Nestorian Stele is erected at Chang'an
35. Evidence
36. Records in Chinese, with a Syriac colophon listing clergy, that the missionary Alopen reached Chang'an in 635 and received Tang imperial permission to preach, and summarises a century and a half of the Church of the East in China. The primary documentary object for Christianity on the overland routes.