Kunlun (disambiguation)

The Kunlun Mountains is a large mountain range between the Tibetan Plateau and the Tarim Basin in western China.

Kunlun may also refer to:

Places

  • Kunlun (mythology), mountain in Chinese mythology
  • Kunlun fault, geological fault along the Kunlun Mountains
  • Kunlun Pass, Guangxi, China
  • Kunlun Station (Antarctica), Chinese research station
  • ζ˜†δΎ–εœ‹ ("The Country of Kunlun"), an ancient Chinese term apparently broadly used to refer to a general swathe of southerly island Southeast Asia circa the Moluccas, equivalent to period Sanskrit Dvipatala or Pali Dipattala (also Jipattala, Nipattala).[1]

Other uses

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References

  1. According to Robin A. Donkin's Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans (2003; Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Volume 248, pp.153-155), which itself cites Deux Lexiques Sanskrit-Chinois, C. Bagchi, 1926-1937, pp.287,348-349.
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