“Fulin Monk: Did Some Christian Community Other Than Nestorians Entered China during the Tang Period”, in Proche-Orient Chrétien Tome 57 （2007） (SAINTE-ANNE, Jerusalem, Isreal) Fulin Monks: Did some Christians other than Nestorians enter China during the Tang period? I. Introduction Since Paul Pelliot published his study on the origin of the name of Fulin in 1914, Fulin has been widely accepted as the Persian or Sogdian transliteration of Rum, i.e., Hrum or From, and refers to Byzantium in the Sui (581-618 CE) and Tang periods (618-907 CE). 1 It was in the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE) that the visits of Fulin emissaries were clearly recorded for the first time. According to the Jiu tangshu (the standard history of the Tang Dynasty, compiled in the 10 th century) and the Xin tangshu (the new standard history of the Tang Dynasty, compiled in the 11 th century), the state of Fulin sent emissaries to China seven times: In 643 (the 17 th year of the Zhenguan period), Bo-duo-li, the king of Fulin, made tribute of red glass, green Jinjing and so 1 P. Pelliot, “Sur l’origine du nom Fou-lin”, Journal Asiatique 1914, 497-500. See also, F. Hirth, China and the Roman Orient, Shanghai and Hong Kong 1885 (reprint Chicago 1975); D.D.Leslie and K.H.J.Gardiner, The Roman Empire in Chinese Sources, Roma 1996.