Rabban Bar Ṣawma (Syriac language: ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, [rɑbbɑn bɑrsˤɑwma]; c. 1220 – January 1294), also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma (simplified Chinese: 拉班·扫马; traditional Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪; pinyin: lābīn sǎowùmǎ), was a Uyghur monk turned diplomat of the "Nestorian" Church of the East in China. He is known for embarking on a pilgrimage from Yuan China to Jerusalem with one of his students, Markos (later Patriarch Yahballaha III). Due to military unrest along the way, they never reached their destination, but instead spent many years in Ilkhanate-controlled Baghdad. (From Wikipedia)
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The History of Rabban Sawma and Mar Yahbh-Allaha, trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (PDF at In Parentheses)- The History of Yaballaha III, Nestorian Patriarch, and of His Vicar, Bar Sauma, Mongol Ambassador to the Frankish Courts at the End of the Thirteenth Century, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1927), ed. by James A. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
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The monks of Kûblâi Khân, emperor of China. (The Religious tract society, 1928), by E. A. Wallis Budge (page images at HathiTrust)- Histoire de Mar-Jabalaha : de trois autres Patriarches, d'un prêtre et de deux laïques, Nestoriens (Otto Harrassowitz, 1895), by Paul Bedjan, Mar Aba, and Mar Babai (page images at HathiTrust)