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unusual facts about Hsüan-tsang



21st anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Tsang was principal of the Pui Kiu Middle School at the time – he relived the shock, disbelief and emotion when the tanks rolled in and the Tiananmen democratic movement was crushed; staff and students were all shocked to learn of the government's brutality.

Bannu District

The Chinese pilgrim Hsüan-tsang visited Bannu and Jaguda, Ghazni, while crossing the lands of O-po-kien (Afghans i.e. Pashtuns).

Cangjie input method

Invented in 1976 by Chu Bong-Foo, the method is named after Cangjie (Tsang-chieh), the mythological inventor of the Chinese writing system; the name was suggested by Chiang Wei-kuo, then Defence Minister of Taiwan.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Chinese character encoding

An example of the problem is the Taiwanese politician Wang Jian-Hsuan whose second given name is not in some character systems, and PRC Premier Zhu Rongji whose Rong character is not in GB2312.

History of Shaivism

In the 7th century the great Chinese traveller Xuanzang (Huen Tsang) toured India and wrote in Chinese about the prevalence of Shiva worship at that time, describing Shiva temples at Kanoj, Karachi, Malwa, Gandhar (Kandahar), and especially at Varanasi (Benares) where he saw twenty large temples dedicated to Shiva.

Hong Kong 818 incident

After the incident the special administrative chiefs Donald Tsang and Fernando Chui met Li Keqiang in Urumqi for the China-Eurasia Expo meeting, and HK journalists were no longer allowed near Li anymore.

Lin Ching-hsuan

Lin Ching-Hsuan (born 14 May 1992 in Taoyuan) is a Taiwanese long jumper.

Louisiana pancake batfish

Hsuan-Ching Ho, of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, discovered the Louisiana pancake batfish when he was visiting his colleague Prosanta Chakrabarty at the Louisiana State University.

Maraguda

Hiuen Tsang who extensively traveled in India from 630-645 A.D. narrates that from Kalinga, he went north-west by hills and woods for about 1800 li to reach Kosal country which was 6000 li in circuit, surrounded by marshes and mountains with its capital city 40 li or 10 km in circuit.

Many scholars have identified the site as capital city of Kosal Kingdom referred to by Hiuen Tsang.

Norzang

The disturbances enabled the Rinpungpa to take control over the strategic town Shigatse in Tsang in 1435.

Norzang was the son of Namkha Gyalpo, the chief of the Rinpung fief in Tsang (West Central Tibet).

Tsang Man Fai

During 2012 summer, Tsang Man Fai joined fellow First Division club Yokohama FC Hong Kong.

Tsang Siu-Fo

Tsang Siu-Fo (曾昭科) was born in May 1925 in Guangzhou, China.

Tsang Tak-sing

On 30 March 2009 Tsang made a historical visit to Taipei.

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

Tsang retains his role as "Roundhead" in this film, whereas Shum plays a supporting role as an actor working and living alongside Rosamund Kwan's character.


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