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Hinayana, the Lesser Vehicle / Buddhism in India before the Mayahana sutras / also pr. [Xiao3 cheng2]
to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures / to learn by studying another's experience
HSK 7-9
old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back to 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond
India
Bollywood (film industry based in Mumbai, India)
rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) / rhesus monkey / lit. river Ganges monkey of north India
China-India
Zhou Enlai's Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence / 1954 Panchsheel series of agreements between PRC and India
Calcutta (India)
East India Company
New Delhi, capital of India
Xuanzang (602-664), Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator who traveled to India 629-645
India and Pakistan
Maurya Dynasty of India (322-185 BC)
Rajasthan (state in India)
Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India
India Times
Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645
Delhi / New Delhi, capital of India / same as 新德里
Taj Mahal (mausoleum in India)
Gantok, capital of Sikkim, India
India (archaic)
Uttar Pradesh (state in India)
Kerala (state in India)
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
Punjab state of India / Punjab province of Pakistan
Magadha, ancient India kingdom reported to be the birthplace of Buddhism
Assam, India
calico (woven cloth from Caldicot, Kerala, India)
Chandighar, capital of Punjab state of northwest India
Patil (name) / Pratibha Patil (1934-), female Indian Congress Party politician, president of India 2007-2012
Marathi language of west India
Gujarat, state in west India
social stratum below the level of ordinary people / untouchable / dalit (India caste)
Maharashtra (state in India)
old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty
Report of the regions west of Great Tang / travel record of Xuan Zang 玄奘 on his travels to Central Asia and India
Joseph Stilwell (1883-1946), commander of US forces in China, Burma and India in World War II
Devanagari alphabet used in India and Nepal
Red Fort (historic building in Delhi, India)
Darjeeling, town in India
Air India
Andhra Pradesh or Andhra State in southeast India
Deccan (India)
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
Pune, second city of Mahārāshtra 馬哈拉施特拉邦|马哈拉施特拉邦 in western India
Punjab state in northwest India bordering Pakistan
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
Salem, capital of Oregon / Salem, city in Massachusetts / Salem, city in India
Air India (abbr.)
Panipat, ancient city in India
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surname Yin / abbr. for 印度, India
Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India
Telugu or Telegu, the official language of Andhra Pradesh, India
Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, north India, home of Tibetan government in exile
Everest (name) / Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866), British Surveyor-General of India 1830-1843 / (Mount) Everest
monk (Sanskrit: Sramana, originally refers to north India) / Buddhist monk
Gandhara Kingdom in northwest India, c. 600 BC-11 AD, on Kabul River in Vale of Peshawar
Madras or Chennai 欽奈|钦奈, capital of Tamil Nadu on East coast of India
Marathi language of west India
Cochin (in south India)
Bihar, state in eastern India
Gujarat, state in west India
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surname Zhu / abbr. for 天竺, India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) / (archaic) Buddhism
old Chinese name for Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India / now called 卡利卡特


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