Timeline of Edinburgh history hosts Armed Forces Day; two giant pandas from China, Yang Guang and Tian Tian, arrive at Edinburgh Zoo 2012: The Edinburgh Agreement between the Scottish Government and the UK Government on the terms of the Scottish independence referendum 2014 is signed in Edinburgh. 2013: To mark the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, a minute's silence for the town's dead was observed at the Mercat Cross on 8 September. 2014: Completion of new tramway between the city centre and Edinburgh Airport Timeline of Edinburgh history This article is a timeline of the history of Edinburgh, Scotland, up to the
Tian the eight directions. The Tian are the heaven worlds and pure lands in Buddhist cosmology. Some devas are also called Tian. The number of vertical heaven layers in Taoism is different, the most common saying is the 36 Tian developed from Durenjing (度人經). In I-Kuan Tao, Tian are divided into 3 vertical worlds. "Li Tian" (理天) "heaven of truth", "Qi Tian" (氣天) "heaven of spirit" and "Xiang Tian" (象天) "heaven of matter". The semantics of "tian" developed diachronically. The "Hanyu dazidian", an historical dictionary of Chinese characters, lists 17 meanings of "tian" 天, translated below. The Chinese philosopher Feng Youlan