Lantien

See also: Lan-t'ien

English

Proper noun

Lantien

1. Alternative form of Lantian
   • 1972 November 26, “CHINESE DIGGING FOR ANCIENT MAN”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 23, 2024, page 73‎^[2]:

     Choukoutien, 30 miles south‐ west of Peking, is only one of three sites where remains of the ape‐man have been found. Bones that are even older than Peking Man, though less numerous, have also been found at Yuanmou in Yunnan Province and at Lantien in Shensi.

   • 1973, Ku Wen, “Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China”, in 中国文学 [Chinese Literature]‎^[3], volume 8, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, pages 88–89:

     The fossilized skull and jaw-bone of Lantien Man, dating from about 600,000 years ago, together with some very primitive stone tools, were found in Lantien County, Shensi Province in 1963 and 1964.

   • 1993, Bill Porter, Road to Heaven‎^[4], San Francisco: Mercury House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

     After five years of listening to the Wuchen River chant the Dharma, Shan-tao left the Lantien area and moved to the nearby outskirts of Ch'ang-an, where he spent most of his remaining years preaching and painting pictures of the Pure Land.

Translations

Lantian — see Lantian

Anagrams

• Eltanin, leant in, tan line