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Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium -influenced ...
Kublai Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, led several campaigns during the Mongol invasions and conquests. These included the Mongol invasions of Japan, First Mongol invasion of Burma, Mongol invasion of Java, second and third Mongol invasions of Vietnam, Mongol invasion of Champa and putting down the Sambyeolcho Rebellion.
This is a timeline of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). The Yuan dynasty was founded by the Mongol warlord Kublai Khan in 1271 and conquered the Song dynasty in 1279. The Yuan dynasty lasted nearly a hundred years before a series of rebellions known as the Red Turban Rebellion resulted in its collapse in 1368 and the rise of the Ming dynasty.
The division of the Mongol Empire began after Möngke Khan died in 1259 in the siege of Diaoyu Castle with no declared successor, precipitating infighting between members of the Tolui family line for the title of khagan that escalated into the Toluid Civil War. This civil war, along with the Berke–Hulagu war and the subsequent Kaidu–Kublai ...
The "person on business from Porlock" was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem " Kubla Khan " in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium -induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor who came "on business from Porlock " while in the ...
Painting of Kublai Khan on a hunting expedition, by the Chinese court artist Liu Guandao, c. 1280 Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, one of the five founders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, was appointed as the Imperial Preceptor and granted power over Tibet by the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan (r. 1260–1294).
Buddhism. Kublai Khan[d][e] (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol -led Yuan dynasty of China. He proclaimed the dynastic name "Great Yuan" [f] in 1271, and ruled Yuan China until his death in 1294.
The Crewe manuscript is the only manuscript copy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poem Kubla Khan. [1] It is a holograph manuscript (i.e., written in Coleridge's own hand), from some time between the poem's composition in 1797 and its publication in 1816. It presumed not to be the first draft of the poem, but rather a "fair copy" written out ...