Jingchuan

• Chingchuan (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇川 / 泾川 (Jīngchuān).

• enPR: jǐngʹchwänʹ^[1]
• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪŋˈt͡ʃwɑn/

Jingchuan

1. A county of Pingliang, Gansu, China.
   • 1986, “Heilongjiang Province [黑龙江省]”, in Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments‎^[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:

     To the east of the ruins are groups of Sariputra stone reliquaries whose shape and decoration are similar to those found in Jingchuan county, Gansu province.

   • 2004, James C. Y. Watt, “Art and History in China from the Third to the Eighth Century”, in China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD‎^[3], New York, New Haven, London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39, column 1:

     As huangdi, she ordered every prefecture in the land to build a Dayun Temple, each of which would be provided with a copy of the all-important Dayun Sutra. The reliquary in this exhibition is from the Dayun Temple in Jingzhou prefecture (now Jingchuan County, Gansu).

   • 2017 November 15, Kastalia Medrano, “BUDDHA’S REMAINS? CREMATED HUMAN DISCOVERED IN INSCRIBED BOX ALONGSIDE HUNDREDS OF ANCIENT STATUES IN CHINA”, in Newsweek‎^[4], archived from the original on 16 November 2017, TECH & SCIENCE‎^[5]:

     Archaeologists discovered a box in Jingchuan County, China, which, according to its inscription, contained the cremated remains of the Buddha. […]
     The archaeological team, led by Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology research fellow Hong Wu, is still determining whether the statues were also buried at that time along with the box.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jingchuan.

• Jingchuan, Chingchuan, Ching-ch'uan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jingchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 2