{"id":832,"date":"2012-04-10T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2012-04-10T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T11:56:37","slug":"im-back-from-my-trip-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"I’m back from my trip to India"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Xi Chuan’s “A Sanskrit Brick from the Nanzhao Kingdom (738\u2013937 CE): After a Vietnamese Poet<\/a>” \u5357\u8bcf\u56fd\u68b5\u6587\u7816\uff1a\u4eff\u4e00\u4f4d\u8d8a\u5357\u8bd7\u4eba:<\/p>\n

On the gray-green brick eleven lines of Sanskrit. The hands that molded the Sanskrit lines. The hands that inlaid the brick into the base of the pagoda. The late Nanzhao monk who could read the eleven lines of Sanskrit. The man or men who brought Sanskrit from India through Nepal to Nanzhao.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Xi Chuan’s “A Sanskrit Brick from the Nanzhao Kingdom (738\u2013937 CE): After a Vietnamese Poet” \u5357\u8bcf\u56fd\u68b5\u6587\u7816\uff1a\u4eff\u4e00\u4f4d\u8d8a\u5357\u8bd7\u4eba: On the gray-green brick eleven lines of Sanskrit. The hands that molded the Sanskrit lines. 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