A Dutch Language book on Christian iconography found in Inner Mongolia

The Lost Lotus Crosses is the report of a travel through China's religious landscape. In the year 635 the first Christians entered the Chinese Empire from the west. They translated their holy texts in images and motives which came straight from the Daoism and Chinese Buddhism: Jesus became Ye Su, Maria Mo Yan and the gospels became Jezus-sutra's. The Jezus-sutra's give not only insight in Chinese Christianity, but enrich knowledge also of our early Christianity, since the original texts have been lost.

Tjalling Halbertsma (B.1969) studied law and cultural anthropology. He has been adviser to the President of Mongolia and writes regularly concerning meetings between East and West for NRC Handelsblad, Trouw, The South China Morning Post and the illustrated magazine Asian Art.