85 examples of tsung in sentences

The emperor T'ai-tsung had his personal bodyguard, a part of his own army of conquest, consisting of his former bondsmen (pu-ch'ü).

The brothers and their families were exterminated, the father compelled to abdicate, and Li Shih-min became emperor, assuming the name T'ai Tsung (627-649).

The last years of T'ai Tsung's reign were filled with a great war against Korea, which represented a continuation of the plans of the Sui emperor Yang Ti.

In 661, under T'ai Tsung's son, the Korean fighting was resumed, this time against Japanese who were defending their interests in Korea.

T'ai Tsung's son, Kao Tsung (650-683), merely carried to a conclusion what had been begun.

T'ai Tsung's son, Kao Tsung (650-683), merely carried to a conclusion what had been begun.

In the last year of Kao Tsung's reign, 683, came the first of the wars of liberation of the northern Turks, known until then as the western Turks, against the Chinese.

And with the end of Kao Tsung's reign began the decline of the T'ang regime.

She had been a concubine of T'ai Tsung, and after his death had become a Buddhist nuna frequent custom of the timeuntil Kao Tsung fell in love with her and made her a concubine of his own.

She had been a concubine of T'ai Tsung, and after his death had become a Buddhist nuna frequent custom of the timeuntil Kao Tsung fell in love with her and made her a concubine of his own.

She gained more and more influence, being placed on a par with the emperor and soon entirely eliminating him in practice; in 680 she removed the rightful heir to the throne and put her own son in his place; after Kao Tsung's death in 683 she became regent for her son.

At first, his father ascended the throne, but was soon persuaded to abdicate in favour of his son, now called emperor Hsüang Tsung (713-755), just as the first ruler of the T'ang dynasty had done.

With Hsüan Tsung there began now a period of forty-five years, which the Chinese describe as the second blossoming of T'ang culture, a period that became famous especially for its painting and literature.

The ancient Chinese classical style of official reports and decrees which the Toba had already revived, now led to the clear prose style of the essayists, of whom Han (768-825) and Liu Tsung-yüan (747-796) call for special mention.

The emperor Hsüan Tsung gave active encouragement to all things artistic.

6 Revolt of a military governor At the beginning of Hsüan Tsung's reign the capital had been in the east at Loyang; then it was transferred once more to Ch'ang-an in the west due to pressure of the western gentry.

This woman, usually called "Concubine Yang" (Yang Kui-fei), became the heroine of countless stage-plays and stories and even films; all the misfortunes that marked the end of Hsüan Tsung's reign were attributed solely to her.

The emperor now abdicated; his son, emperor Su Tsung (756-762), also fled, though not with him into Szechwan, but into north-western Shensi.

When the emperor Su Tsung died, in 762, Tengri, the khan of the Uighurs, decided to make himself ruler over China.

One of them, the school of the Pure Land (Ching-t'u tsung, since 641) required of its mainly lower class adherents only the permanent invocation of the Buddha Amithabha who would secure them a place in the "Western Paradise"a place without social classes and economic troubles.

The period transition (until c. A.D. 1000) was followed by a period of "moderate absolutism" (until 1278) in which emperors as persons played a greater role than before, and some emperors, such as Shen Tsung (in 1071), even declared that they regarded the welfare of the masses as more important than the profit of the gentry.

The young emperor Shen Tsung (1068-1085) became convinced that the policy followed by the ruling clique of officials and gentry was bad, and he gave his adhesion to a small group led by Wang An-shih (1021-1086).

CHANG, TSUNG-CH'IEN.

Edited by Chang Tsung-ch'ien & R.C. Rudolph.

Herlee Glessner Creel, Chang Tsung-ch'ien & Richard C. Rudolph (A); 18Nov66; R397713.

85 examples of  tsung  in sentences