Chin Lin

Chin Lin/Kim Lin
(金鄰/金邻国)
(จินหลิน/กิมหลิน)
Chin Lin/Kim Lin; (金鄰/金邻国); (จินหลิน/กิมหลิน)
9 CE–c. 3rd century CE
	Chin Lin? Chin Lin? Proposed locations of Chin Lin
Capital	Mueang Uthong?
Religion	Buddhism; Brahmanism;
Historical era	9 CE -3rd centuries CE
• Established	9 CE
• Disestablished	c. 3rd century CE
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Mon city-states
Dvaravati
Today part of	Thailand; Myanmar;

Chin Lin or Kim Lin (Chinese: 金鄰/金邻; Thai: จินหลิน/กิมหลิน) was an ancient political entities in modern lower central Thailand exited from the 9 CE to the 3rd century.^[1]^: 27

In the 3rd century CE, after defeating Tun Sun to control the trans-Kra Isthmus trade route and encircle Chin Lin,^[1]^: 20, 25^[2]^: 258 king Fan Man of Funan attempted to seize Chin Lin,^[1]^: 20 but failed due to his illness.^[3]^: 258^[2]^: 269

Location

The location of Chin Lin remains unclear. It was first mentioned around 9 – 22 CE during the late Western Han period, a Chinese emperor Wang Mang sent an embassy to visit Chin-lin. Later in the 3rd century, Chin Lin was again mentioned in the account of Funan king Fan Shih-man's conquests in the Chinese text Liáng Shū, which states that Chin Lin was located 3,000 li north of the kingdoms of Ta-k'un (Ch'ü-tu-k'un) and Chü-li (Chiu-chih),^[2]^: 258 speculated to be Kou-chih of Kole polis in present-day near Kuantan of Malaysia.^[1]^: 26–27 Palmer Briggs proposes that Chin-lin and its southern neighbor, Tun Sun, was the Mon countries. The boundary between this two entities was ill-defined, but probably not far above the present-Mergui-Tanintharyi Region.^[2]^: 259

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Paul Wheatley (1956). "Tun-Sun (頓遜)". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1/2). Cambridge University Press: 17–30. JSTOR 25222785. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Lawrence Palmer Briggs (1950). "The Khmer Empire and the Malay Peninsula". The Far Eastern Quarterly. 9 (3). Duke University Press: 256–305. doi:10.2307/2049556. JSTOR 2049556. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.
^ Gustaaf Schlegel (1899). "Geographical Notes. VII. Tun-Sun 頓遜 or Tian-Sun 典遜 Tĕnasserim or Tānah-Sāri". T'oung Pao. 10 (1). Brill Publishers: 33–38. JSTOR 4525378. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.

[jstor-1] Paul Wheatley (1956). "Tun-Sun (頓遜)". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1/2). Cambridge University Press: 17–30. JSTOR 25222785. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.

[briggs-2] Lawrence Palmer Briggs (1950). "The Khmer Empire and the Malay Peninsula". The Far Eastern Quarterly. 9 (3). Duke University Press: 256–305. doi:10.2307/2049556. JSTOR 2049556. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.

[tian-3] Gustaaf Schlegel (1899). "Geographical Notes. VII. Tun-Sun 頓遜 or Tian-Sun 典遜 Tĕnasserim or Tānah-Sāri". T'oung Pao. 10 (1). Brill Publishers: 33–38. JSTOR 4525378. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.

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