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Tangut society was divided into two classes: the "Red Faced" and the "Black Headed". The Red Faced Tanguts were seen as commoners while the Black Headed Tanguts made up the elite priestly caste. Although Buddhism was extremely popular among the Tangut people, many Tangut herdsmen continued to practice a kind of shamanism known as Root West (Melie).
Tanguts capture Ordos [20] 1002: Dingnan Jiedushi conquers Lingzhou, renames it Xiping, and makes it their capital [21] 1004: 6 January: Li Jiqian dies in battle against the Tibetan state of Xiliangfu and his son Li Deming succeeds him [17] Li Jipeng dies at the Song court [17] 1008: Dingnan Jiedushi attacks the Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom [22] 1009
Tangutology or Tangut studies is the study of the culture, history, art and language of the ancient Tangut people, especially as seen through the study of contemporaneous documents written by the Tangut people themselves.
The Western Xia or the Xi Xia (Chinese: 西夏; pinyin: Xī Xià; Wade–Giles: Hsi 1 Hsia 4), officially the Great Xia (大夏; Dà Xià; Ta 4 Hsia 4), also known as the Tangut Empire, and known as Mi-nyak [6] to the Tanguts and Tibetans, was a Tangut-led imperial dynasty of China that existed from 1038 to 1227.
The Tanguts of Xixia (to the north of Yunnan around this time) spoke a Tibeto-Burman language that may also have been close to Burmese-Yi. Going further back in time, the people of the ancient kingdom of Sanxingdui in Sichuan (in the 12th–11th centuries BCE) were probably ancestral to the later Tibet-Burmans and perhaps even more narrowly to ...
In 996, Tanguts began raiding Liangzhou. [3] In 998, Xiliangfu had a population of 128,000. [4] In 1001, Panluozhi came to power. [3] In 1003, Li Jiqian occupied Liangzhou but failed to hold the city when their forces fell to a Tibetan ambush. [3] In 1004, Panluozhi was assassinated by Tanguts and his brother Siduodu succeeded him. [3]
Pages in category "Tanguts" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Tangut people; T. Tangut language;
Tangut may refer to: . Tangut people, an ancient ethnic group in Northwest China; Tangut language, the extinct language spoken by the Tangut people; Tangut script, the writing system used to write the Tangut language