Nurgan Regional Military Commission

The Nurgan Regional Military Commission (Chinese: 奴兒乾都指揮使司; pinyin: Nú'érgān dūzhǐhuī shǐsī) was a Chinese administrative seat established during the Ming Dynasty, located on the banks of the Amur River, about 100 km from the sea, at modern Tyr, Russia. The eunuch Yishiha established the seat in 1409, but it was abandoned in 1435.^[1] Nurgan was the site of Yongning Temple (永寕寺), a Buddhist temple dedicated to Guanyin, that was founded by Išiqa in 1413.^[2] The founding of Yongning Temple is recorded in a stele with inscriptions in Chinese, Mongolian and Jurchen.^[3]

Footnotes

1. ^ Li, Gertraude Roth (2002). "State Building before 1644". In Peterson, Willard J.. The Ch'ing Empire to 1800. Cambridge History of China. 9. Cambridge University Press. p. 14. ISBN 9780521243346. 
2. ^ Crossley, Pamela Kyle (2002). A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. University of California Press. pp. 58, 185. ISBN 9780520234246. 
3. ^ Jin, Guangping; Jin, Qizong (1980). 女真語言文字研究 [Study of Jurchen Language and Script]. Wenwu Chubaneshe. p. 355.