chʻien-tʻang

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"About the year 880 an artist named Kuan Hsiu (貫休) made pictures of the Sixteen Lohan, which were given to a Buddhist monastery near Ch‘ien-t‘ang in the province of Chekiang."
"Lin Ho-ching, surnamed Pu, a man who lived during the Sung dynasty of China, was born at Ch‘ien-t‘ang of Hang-chau in Ché-kiang province."
"CHIN Ying-lin 金應麟, native of Ch‘ien-t‘ang, Chekiang, was a chin-shih of the Tao-kuang period."

From Mandarin 錢塘 /钱塘 (Qiántáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻien²-tʻang².

Ch‘ien-t‘ang (canonical)

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