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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Alumni of West China Union University[edit]
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 05:31, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Happy (late) Candlemas![edit]
Dear Uriel1022,
Perhaps it's a little tradition to send you a greeting at each major feast. Hope you don't mind. I have nothing much to share except that I am writing about the ... Jingjiao Sanwei Mengdu Zan. I hope to publish it somewhere in Lent and get it on DYK for Easter. If not possible, then I get it on DYK for Pentecost or Trinity Sunday. You can literally "watch me work" at User:TheLonelyPather/sandbox3.
Some fun *Easter* eggs (haha) I found while I was cruising through mountains of sources:
- Jingjing, the Jingjiao monk translator of the Sanwei Zan, helped translate some Buddhist sutra into Chinese before working on the Gloria. Hence the ... flavourful language (and perhaps even spicier theology?).
- There is a metaphor of "boat" in the Sanwei Zan. Very likely something borrowed from Manichaeism.
Finally, I am again seeking your opinion on the proper name of this potential article. I am now inclined to call it Jingjiao Sanwei Mengdu Zan, but that's not an ideal English title. Moreover, there is not a conventional English name for it–every author I've come across has their own favourite name / translation for this piece. I've also thought about calling it the "Nestorian Gloria in Excelsis Deo", but it is slightly misleading in two ways–Jingjiao is not entirely Nestorian, and this piece does not have a tight resemblance to the Latin Gloria in excelsis.
Hope everything's well on your side. I keep you and others who study and illustrate the faith in my prayers. Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 23:47, 7 February 2024 (UTC)