OBPYU11 Stone Stela from near the Tharaba Gate
Tharaba Gate, Bagan, where the stone stela (OBPYU11) was found.
IN03152 Galle Trilingual Stele – Chinese Inscription
Galle (Sri Lanka). Stele of Zheng He (鄭和), transcription of Chinese portion. (Zenodo).
The inscription is engraved on a stone slab discovered in 1911 by H. F. Tomalin, the Provincial Engineer at Galle, in a culvert near the turn to Cripps Road within that town and afterwards moved to the Colombo Museum. The slab features inscriptions in three different languages, enclosed within a floral border: Tamil (top-left, IN03150), Persian (bottom-left, IN03151) and Chinese (right). The Chinese inscription is dealt with here.
Following the discovery of the slab, the Chinese inscription was transcribed and translated by Edmund Backhouse. Like the Tamil inscription, it is dated in the second month of the seventh year of Yongle (永樂), the Chinese emperor whose reign began in 1403. The text features praise and offerings dedicated by the Chinese emperor, through his envoys Ching-Ho and Wang Ch’ing Lien, to the Buddha. The other two inscriptions on the slab feature similar lists of offerings but the beneficiary is different in each case, being a Hindu cult deity in the Tamil text and an Islamic saint or shrine in the Persian. It therefore appears that, when the Chinese arrived in Sri Lanka, they made gifts of equal value to several different religious traditions of the region and registered these gifts on the same stele.
OB03125 Galle Trilingual Stele of Zheng He (鄭和)
OBCH0006 Bodhgayā stone slab with a seated Buddha, Mārīcī and a fragmentary Chinese inscription
Bodhgayā (बोधगया, often Bodh Gaya, Bihār).
OBCH0006 Bodhgayā stone slab with a seated Buddha, Mārīcī and a fragmentary Chinese inscription (INCH0006). The present location of the original is not recorded (07/2019).
INCH0006 Bodhgaya stone slab with a seated Buddha, Marici and a fragmentary Chinese inscription
INCH0006 Bodhgayā stone slab with a seated Buddha, Mārīcī and a fragmentary Chinese inscription (INCH0006). For an edition 栢本泰生. (2019). ボードガヤー出土の10~11 世紀漢文石刻資料と 訪天僧の奉獣品. (see CONCORDANCE).
OBCH0003 Bodhgaya stele with a Chinese inscription dated CE 1022.
OBCH0003 Bodhgaya stele with a Chinese inscription (INCH0003).
INCH0003 Bodhgaya stele with a Chinese inscription dated CE 1022
INCH0003 Bodhgayā stele (OBCH0003) with a Chinese inscription date CE 1022. Working edition (01/2021).
OBCH0001 Bodhgayā stone stele with a Chinese inscription dated CE 1021-22
Bodhgayā (बोधगया, often Bodh Gaya, Bihār).
Bodhgayā stone stele (OBCH0001) with a Chinese inscription (INCH0001) dated CE 1021-22.
INCH0001 Bodhgaya stone stele inscription in Chinese dated CE 1021-22
Bodhgayā stone stele (OBCH0001) inscription (INCH0001) written in Chinese and dated CE 1021-22.