Tyr stele or Stela of the Yunning Temple - a stele of the times of the Ming empire with inscriptions in Chinese, Jurchen and Mongolian languages, erected in 1413 near the mouth of the Amur River at the base of the Yunning (永 寕 寺) temple by the Chinese eunuch Ishikha . The temple was located on the site of the current village of Tyr, Khabarovsk Territory . The last known example of monumental inscriptions in the Jurchen language .
Another stele with an inscription only in Chinese in memory of the restoration of the Yunning Temple was erected in 1433. Both steles at the turn of the 19th — 20th centuries were moved to Vladivostok , to the museum of the Society for the Study of the Amur Region (now the Seaside Museum named after Arsenyev ), where they are still stored.
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Literature
- Golovachev V. Ts., Ivliev A. L., Pevnov A. M., Rykin P. O. “Tyr stelae of the 15th century: Translation, commentary, study of Chinese, Mongolian and Jurchen texts” (Golovachev V. Ts., Ivliev AL , Pevnov AM, Rykin PO The Tyr Steles of the 15th Century: Translations, commentaries, study of the Chinese, Mongolian and Jurchen texts ). Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for linguistic studies; Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of Far East, Far Eastern Branch; Institute of Oriental studies. St. Petersburg, Nauka, 2011. ISBN 978-5-02-025615-6 (Russian)