Ruyang

Proper noun

Ruyang

1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
   • A memorial of 1325 says that two Honan men, Chao Ch’ou-ssu and Kuo P’u-sa (Kuo the Bodhisattva), from Hsi-chou (modern Ju-yang county) preached heretical doctrines, saying, "The Buddha Maitreya should possess the world."[1976, Daniel L. Overmyer, “The White Lotus Tradition”, in Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China, number 83, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84
   • In 1229, after having served for five years in the academy, Wang E was appointed district assistant in the Kuei-te administration and acting magistrate of the Ch’eng-fu county of Po-chou, both in Honan. A year later, he was promoted to be vice-prefect of Shen-chou, as well as acting magistrate of...[1993, Hok-lam Chan, “Wang E (1190-1273)”, in Igor de Rachewiltz, Hok-lam Chan, Hsiao Ch’i-ch’ing, Peter W. Geier, May Wang, editors, In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early...