Full Version: Sultan Paduka Pahala (Sultanate Sulu) tombstone
The Ming Shi(Annals of Ming dynasty) recorded that the early Filipinos sent tribute embassies to China from 1372 to 1424. In the year 1417, for instance, a Sulu tribute embassy led by Sultan Paduka Pahala arrived in Peking, where it was welcomed by Emperor Yung-lo. On the way home to Sulu, the sultan got sick and died near the city of De Zhou, Shandong Province, East China. He was given a royal funeral by Emperor Yung-lo. His tomb was now preserved in this Chinese City. On his tombstone can be read a royal inscription personally written by the Chinese emperor.
His decendants had already visited the Philippines after more than 500 years in 2005
QUOTE(HangPC2 @ Nov 22 2006, 07:32 PM) [snapback]2506210[/snapback]
The Ming Shi(Annals of Ming dynasty) recorded that the early Filipinos sent tribute embassies to China from 1372 to 1424. In the year 1417, for instance, a Sulu tribute embassy led by Sultan Paduka Pahala arrived in Peking, where it was welcomed by Emperor Yung-lo. On the way home to Sulu, the sultan got sick and died near the city of De Zhou, Shandong Province, East China. He was given a royal funeral by Emperor Yung-lo. His tomb was now preserved in this Chinese City. On his tombstone can be read a royal inscription personally written by the Chinese emperor.
But......they are not Filipinos.
who were they? impersonating as the sultan's descendants?
QUOTE(Datu Mandub @ Nov 25 2006, 09:23 AM) [snapback]2511937[/snapback]
But......they are not Filipinos.
Muslim Sulu
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