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Rabban Bar Ṣawma (Syriac language: ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, [rɑbbɑn bɑrsˤɑwma]; c. 1220 – January 1294), also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma (simplified Chinese: 拉班·扫马; traditional Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪; pinyin: lābīn sǎowùmǎ), was a Uyghur or Ongud monk turned diplomat of the "Nestorian" Church of the East in ...
Rabban bar Sauma was a Nestorian Christian ecclesiastic, whose important but little-known travels in western Europe as an envoy of the Mongols provide a counterpart to those of his contemporary, the Venetian Marco Polo, in Asia.
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May 13, 2021 · This Chinese monk's epic, east-to-west travels rival Marco Polo's. In the 13th century, a Mongolian khan sent Rabban Bar Sauma west to forge diplomatic ties with powerful leaders from Persia...
In the late 1280s, a Nestorian Christian monk named Rabban Bar Sauma took the opposite route of many of his contemporary explorers by venturing from his homeland in China to western Europe. He and a student also made a trip to Persia and Iraq.
The first person from Turkik China to visit Europe, Bar Sauma (c. 1225–1294) was a Christian monk also known by the honorific Rabban Sauma. Sauma traveled to Rome and Paris on a diplomatic mission to attempt an alliance between western European monarchs and Mongols in Iran.
Jul 31, 2019 · First in a series on Rabban Bar Sauma, covering his life from miracle-baby through cave-bound monk and on to pilgrim, with ambassador to the cities of western Europe not far behind. This episode takes us from Yuan China to Jerusalem, or perhaps not quite that far.
Rabban Bar Sauma recounted his voyages in a work composed in the Syriac language, describing especially the journey from Khān Bālīq to Persia, the vicissitudes of the patriarch Rabban Marcos, and his peregrinations through Europe.
