#nestorian

[along-the-silkroad]

Anikova dish: Nestorian Christian plate with decoration of the Siege of Jericho, probably made by Sogdian artists under Karluk dominion, in Semirechye. Cast silver of the 9th-10th century, copied from an original 8th century plate.

[space-catholic]

[spiritualawakeningradio]

"Those who understand can see the two aspects, the two seeds of being: the heavenly soul and the sacred spirit. The human being and the Spirit come from one sacred root. The Spirit and heavenly soul create the true human being." (The Sutra of Origins, Da Qin Scripture of China)

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In 2019, a plague genome from Laishevo, at the confluence of the Volga and the Kama Rivers in Russia, was published. The bacterium that killed this individual is the closest found so far to the great polytomy, and it is immediately ancestral to the strains that caused the Black Death. It is a trace of the plague's movement into western Eurasia on the eve of the Second Pandemic.⁵⁸

58. The Tian Shan plague focus lies at an important juncture between the Mongolian heartlands and the central steppe. It has been known since the 1950s that a series of gravestones carved by Nestorian Christians in this region suggested a severe epidemic in 1338-39. Ten of the inscriptions even mention a "pestilence." (...) It is not certain that Y. pestis caused the epidemic, but if it did this raises the intriguing possibility that the pandemic explosion of the Black Death was here in the years before its appearance in the west.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[santmat]

"To be pure and still means to be open to purity and stillness -- as a result you can intuit the truth." (Jingjing, 7th Century Da Qin Scripture of China)

[pollyj]

Rubbing from a Nestorian stele, Xi'an

Paper, early 20th century

In Chinese and Syriac (an Aramaic dialect), this inscription, dated 781, records a pivotal moment in East-West relations, the arrival of Nestorianism during the Tang dynasty:

"... there was a man of great virtue in the Roman empire, whose name was Aluoben. Auguring from the azure clouds, he decided to bring the true scriptures, and observing the winds, he made his way through difficulties and perils [arriving] in the ninth year of the Zhenguan period [635] in Chang'an..."

[wordsmithic]

An Assyrian Nestorian Christian tombstone found in China that showed influences of Persian, Chinese, and Syriac Christian characteristics

[veganmainespirituality]

O God the Cause of all things, the Enlightener of all humanity, the Giver of life and existence to all beings corporeal and incorporeal, the Vast Ocean of every blessing, the Unfathomable Depth of every knowledge, the Righteous One whose Nature is all-merciful, the Lover of mankind, and the Eternal Spring of all goodness. Thy Godhead is worthy of all praise and honor, and to Thy Greatness it is fit that unceasing thanks should be offered for Thy wonderful providence towards the world above and the world beneath, and for the abundance of Thy mercies towards Thy heavenly and earthly creatures. With the humility of a servant we implore Thy Eternity, and with earnest longing we beseech Thy Unspeakable Love, to select us as unsullied and chosen vessels for Thy hidden Treasury, and to make us abodes |381 of beauty and purity for the inhabitation of Thy Trinity : that by Thy help we may be drawn up out of the drowning sea of this material world, and be lifted up to the holy of holies, the place of Thy divine mysteries, and be transformed into That Likeness which is above all likeness; and that through the rays of Thy Everlasting Light we may shine forth for ever, being eternal, and live and be confirmed far beyond the reach of all error of mind or of body, and become the companions of those who are near to Thee in spirit and in act, and be happy both here and there for ever and ever. Amen.

Abdisho bar Brika (Mar Abd Yeshua), Marganitha (Jewel) or Pearl: the Truth of Faith:  http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/abdisho_bar_brika_jewel_01_text.htm