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This famous Tablet, discovered at Sian Fu, the capital of Shensi, records the arrival at that city, then the capital of the Empire, of the Nestorian Priest Olopun from Syria with the true sacred books, in 635. It states the main points of Nestorian teaching, and that the sacred books were translated in the Imperial library. The Tablet was erected 781, and gives a brief summary of the Nestorian Christians in China from  635 to that date, nearly 150 years. The inscription is in Chinese and the Estrangelo Syrian characters.

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