Yang Xuanzhi 楊衒之 ,“Record of the Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang” 洛陽伽藍記, 547 AD also was the topic of another blog post.
Here I present: Victor Cunrui Xiong, “Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-Modern China: Luoyang: 1038 BC to 938 CE”, 2016.
Shown BELOW the River Valley Civilizations that emerged on the Yellow River (China), the Indus River (India), the Nile River(Egypt), and between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (Mesopotamia) made lasting contributions to civilization of writing.
The ”table” shown BELOW lists a timeline of influential events in writing, printing, and publishing. The White Horse Temple at Luoyang, CHINA in 65 AD is the beginning of printed literature. Nalanda University at Bihar, INDIA in 427 AD was the source of writings to be printed (Buddhist texts). This printed literature spread to X’ian, CHINA in 582 AD; and printed literature spread to Nara, JAPAN in 728 AD. The non-Buddhist, monastic University spread to Bologna University in 1088 AD with Christian writing. Bologna University did not get printed literature until European adapted the printing press.
Here I presented: Victor Cunrui Xiong, “Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-Modern China: Luoyang: 1038 BC to 938 CE”, 2016.
SUMMARY.
Luoyang, CHINA was not the first university in the World. However, Luoyang is the cradle of printed literature, and contributed to the development of the monastic university of Buddhism. This predates the first first Western university (Bologna University 1088 AD).
Terrien De Lacouperie, “The Old Babylonian Characters and their Chinese Derivatives”, 1888 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
