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Hsüan-tsung

(ˈʃwɑːn ˈtsɒŋ)

(Biography) a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Xuan Zong

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It may well date from the reign of the Tang emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712-756), which saw greater naturalism in sculpture and Buddhist deities rendered more approachable than before.

Art market

A Regretful Story in the Tang Palace follows the sad but beautiful love story of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Consort Yang.

Hong Kong : Ling Lung Cantonese Opera Troupe to perform selected works of Yuen May in December

One Tang emperor Xuanzong demonstrated this on a truly massive scale-half-a-thousand warriors on each side of a rope 150 meters long.

Helping China rise peacefully

1239 is attributed to the great Ceylonese Tantric master Subhakarasimha, 637-735), who reached Chang'an in the early eighth century and was patronized by Emperor Xuanzong (r.

The cat demon, gender, and religious practice: towards reconstructing a medieval Chinese cultural pattern

712-756) set up Nei Jiaofang in 714 (Kaiyuan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 2nd year), "In Kaiyuan 2nd year, Xuanzong set up Nei Jiaofang beside the Penglai Palace ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII])" (Ouyang and Song 816).

The palace entertainment institutions in the Tang poetries

During the Tang dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang promoted large-scale tug-of-war games, using ropes of up to 167 metres or (547.

Show of strength

Convertido en un hombre rico, enseguida se compro una casa imponente y comenzo a llevar una vida de lujos que no diferia mucho de la del emperador Xuanzong.

Toshishun: Akutagawa Ryunosuke

137) Van der Kuijp says this unnamed emperor would have been the Xuanzong Emperor (r.

Tropu Lotsawa (1172-1236): translator and builder of religious institutions in 13th Century Tibet

Xuanzong was forced to order her execution as he and his troops fled to Chengdu.

Filmmakers learn to play by China rulebook

If Sikong Tu's poem and its illustration in Illustrated Tang Poems render the lovers' fleeting gaze as harmless fantasy, the famous gaze cast by the eighth-century emperor Xuanzong [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] on his favorite Consort Yang [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] taking a bath inevitably evokes moralistic reflection, as the scene is a chapter in the narrative of the decline of the High Tang.

In his thievish eyes: the voyeur/reader in Li Yu's "The Summer Pavilion"

He likened Song's sorry state of affairs to those of the periods of Liang Wudi and Tang Xuanzong, in which people only enjoyed their accomplishment while neglecting reforms, a state of affairs that ultimately led to the fall of their empires.

Legalistic Confucianism and economic development in East Asia

Xuanzong so loved Yang that he neglected affairs of state, resulting in one of the worst rebellions in Chinese history.