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Restored Mogao Christian painting, possibly a representation of Jesus Christ.The original work dates back to the 9th century. The Jingjiao Documents (Chinese: 景教經典; pinyin: Jǐngjiào jīngdiǎn; also known as the Nestorian Documents or the Jesus Sutras) are a collection of Chinese language texts connected with the 7th-century mission of Alopen, a Church of the East bishop from ...
The frontispiece of Athanasius Kircher's 1667 China Illustrata, depicting the Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola adoring the monogram of Christ in Heaven while Johann Adam Schall von Bell and Matteo Ricci labor on the China mission "The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Giulio Aleni's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic ...
Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power. Washington: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-652-7. "The Canaan Hymns". The Cross: Jesus in China (DVD). Episode 4. China Soul. 2003. OCLC 56714083. Golf, Paul (2013). The Coming Chinese Church: How Rising Faith in China is Spilling Over Its ...
Chinese stone inscription of a Nestorian Cross from the Cross Temple of Fangshan District in Beijing (then called Dadu, or Khanbaliq), dated to the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368 AD) of imperial China. Bodhisattva-like figurine seated on a cross, a Church of the East relic from Imperial China, probably Yuan dynasty.
Manichean hymns to Jesus are preserved in a variety of languages, especially Coptic from 4th century Egypt and, to a lesser extent, Parthian, Sogdian, Middle Persian, and Uighur, from Karakhoja in the 8th to 11th centuries, and even Middle Chinese, 8th century North China. This wealth of Jesus themes, especially in the western part of the ...
A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine ...
It depicts a bearded figure (Jesus) mounted on a donkey holding a processional cross with arms terminating in pearls and entering Jerusalem, [note 1] [5] with a female figure (believer) dressing in the Tang dynasty costume. The cross which the figure holding is similar to the processional cross depicted on a lost Manichean banner from Qocho.
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