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Description: "Chinese priests and monks", drawn by the Dutch visitors in 1655-1658. According to Lach & Kley (1993), the leftmost sitting person wears the headgear of a Mongol Lama; the sitting person in the middle, with a big hat, holds a muyu ("wooden fish"). The standing man on the right, with beads, is a Buddhist priest. The other two standing people may be Buddhist monks.
Title: Sineesche-paapen-0103-cropped
Credit: Johann Nieuhof, "Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in der Vereinigten Niederländern an der tartarischen Cham und nunmehr auch sinischen Keiser", Amsterdam, 1666. Reproduced many times since; this reproduction is from Lach & Kley, "Asia in the Making of Europe", Volume III, Book Four, plate 337
Author: most likely Johann Nieuhoff himself (as per Lach and Kley, 1993), or a member of his delegation
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