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
- ζδΎε ("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]
Other uses
- 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
References
- β 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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