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The Qingtongxia 108 Stupas are a Buddhist religious site located on a hillside above the Yellow River in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China. The stupas are arranged in 12 ascending rows forming a triangular pattern and are believed to date from the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227), a Tangut-led emp...
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Visually striking historic Ningxia stupa group with strong regional heritage status and unusual formal composition.
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Li Fanwen is a Chinese scholar and lexicographer known for research on the extinct Tangut language, which was used by the Western Xia dynasty. Born in 1932, he compiled the Tangut-Chinese Dictionary, published in 1997, which organized and interpreted roughly 6,000 Tangut characters. His work supplie...
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