Kunlun (disambiguation)
The Kunlun Mountains is a large mountain range between the Tibetan Plateau and the Tarim Basin in western China.
Kunlun may also refer to:
Places
- Kunlun (mythology), mountain in Chinese mythology
- Kunlun fault, geological fault along the Kunlun Mountains
- Kunlun Pass, Guangxi, China
- Kunlun Station (Antarctica), Chinese research station
- 昆侖國 ("The Country of Kunlun"), an ancient Chinese term apparently broadly used to refer to a general swathe of southerly island Southeast Asia circa the Moluccas, equivalent to period Sanskrit Dvipatala or Pali Dipattala (also Jipattala, Nipattala).[1]
- Côn Sơn Island, Vietnam was referred to by Chinese Sailors as Kunlun Island. To the west lie Trứng Lớn and Trứng Nhỏ Islands, which were called Little Kunlun Islands.
Other uses
- Kunlun slave, "dark-skinned and wavy-haired" slaves in ancient China who were from island Southeast Asia
- Kunlun Energy, Chinese oil and gas company
- Kunlun Fight, Chinese Kickboxing promotion
- Kunlun Sect, fictional organisation in Wuxia fiction
- Kunlun Shan (998), Chinese ship
- 3613 Kunlun, main-belt asteroid
- HC Kunlun Red Star, ice hockey club in Beijing, China
- Huawei KunLun Mission Critical Server
References
- According to Robin A. Donkin's Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices up to the Arrival of Europeans (2003; Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Volume 248, pp.153-155), which itself cites Deux Lexiques Sanskrit-Chinois, C. Bagchi, 1926-1937, pp.287,348-349.
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