Derogatory, Sometimes Relating to teachings or to the followers of Nestorius.
A Nestorian stele, dated 781AD, was discovered in 1625 near Chang'an.
Through them passed not only the traders of the Silk Route[…] but also lone Buddhist monks carrying precious cargoes of scrolls in their backpacks, white-robed Manichean sages from Iran and austere Nestorian clerics who founded Christian monasteries even in remote Tibet.1995 November 25, Michael Gibson, “The Treasures of a Lost Buddhist World”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN: