The Xi'an stele is erected

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1. Story
2. On 4 February 781 the Jingjiao stele was erected at or near Chang'an, composed by the monk Jingjing and inscribed in Chinese and Syriac, recording about 150 years of the Church of the East in China. It is the best-dated single object in this Journey, and its Chinese phrasing borrows Daoist and Buddhist vocabulary to state Christian doctrine — the mechanism of syncretism caught in the act of writing.
3. Knowledge
4. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
5. Silk Road religious corridor
6. Religious syncretism at contact points
7. Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
8. The Xi'an stele is erected
9. Connections
10. Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
11. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
12. Religious syncretism at contact points
13. Silk Road religious corridor
14. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
15. Religious syncretism at contact points
16. Alopen received at the Tang court
17. The Xi'an stele is erected
18. Chang'an
19. Christianity
20. Limits of religious diffusion
21. Silk Road religious corridor
22. Alopen reaches Chang'an
23. The Nestorian Stele is erected at Chang'an
24. Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
25. Alopen received at the Tang court
26. The Xi'an stele is erected
27. Mogao Caves
28. Borobudur
29. Gandhara
30. Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
31. Anthropomorphic Buddha images appear in Gandhara and Mathura
32. The Xi'an stele is erected
33. Construction of Borobudur under Shailendra patronage
34. Buddhism
35. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
36. Xuanzang
37. Dunhuang
38. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
39. Ashoka's bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription at Kandahar
40. Buddhism attested in Han China
41. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
42. Xuanzang's overland journey to India and return
43. Alopen received at the Tang court
44. The Xi'an stele is erected
45. Evidence
46. A limestone stele 279 cm high, bilingual in Chinese and Syriac, records roughly 150 years of the Church of the East in China, names the missionary Alopen as received by Emperor Taizong in 635, and calls the church 'the Luminous Religion of Daqin'; its Chinese text uses Daoist and Buddhist vocabulary.