Yonglong

English

Alternative forms

• Yung-lung (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔŋ.lɔŋ/

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永隆 (Yǒnglóng).

Proper noun

Yonglong

1. era name used by Liang Shidu (618–628)
2. era name used by Emperor Gaozong of Tang (680–681)
   • 1996, Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, “Emperor Gaozong (649-683) -- Wu Ze-tian (684-705)”, in Court Art of the Tang‎^[1], University Press of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:

     The Wanfotong cave was built in commemoration of the pious deeds of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Ze-tian and their sons by imperial edict in the first year of Yonglong (680) by eunuch Yao Shen-piao and monk Chi Yun, who was in charge of the rites at court.

   • 2003, Tansen Sen, “Military Concerns and Spiritual Underpinnings of Tang-India Diplomacy”, in Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400‎^[2], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:

     Another inscription, dated to the second year of the Yonglong period (681), found in the Bingling cave 54, in Gansu province, reports Wang Xuance’s pious act of installing images of the Buddha and bodhisattvas.

   • [2005 [1989], Choi Hee An, “The Tradition of Buddhism”, in Korean Women and God: Experiencing God in a Multi-religious Colonial Context‎^[3] (Women's Studies/Theology), Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, sourced from Hideo Inoue, "Reception of Buddhism in Korea," in Introduction of Buddhism to Korea: New Cultural Patterns, ed. Lewis R. Lancaster and Yu C. S. (Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press), 44-45., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:

     After ruling the kingdom [of Silla] for twenty-one years, the great king [Munmu] passed away in the second year of the Tang Yung-lung era. . . . Following the king’s command, he was entombed atop a great boulder on the Eastern Sea.]

   • 2007, Amy McNair, “Salvation for One”, in Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawai‛i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 138, column 2‎^[4]:

     Directior Yao Shenbiao and Meditation Master (Zhi)yun of the Palace Chapel completed the Fifteen Thousand Honorable Images Shrine on the thirtieth day of the eleventh month of the inaugural year of the Yonglong era of the Great Tang (December 26, 680)

3. era name used by Wang Yanxi, emperor of Min (939–943)

Translations

era name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 永隆 (zh) (Yǒnglóng)

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永漋 (Yǒnglóng).

Proper noun

Yonglong

1. A town in Jingshan, Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Translations

town in Hubei, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 永漋 (Yǒnglóng)