ISBN:
9789004194588
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 371 pages)
,
illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Edition:
Also issued in print and PDF version
Series Statement:
Dynamics in the history of religion volume 2
Series Statement:
Dynamics in the history of religions
Parallel Title:
Print version Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks, Mobility and Exchange Within and Beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia
Keywords:
Buddhists Travel
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Trade routes History
;
Buddhist geography
Abstract:
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks of religious mobility and trade
Abstract:
Road Map for Travelers. Models for the Movement of Buddhism -- Merit, Merchants, and the Buddhist Sangha -- Sources and Methods for the study of Buddhist -- Transmission -- Outline of Destinations -- Two Historical Contexts for the Emergence and Transmission of Buddhism within South Asia. Initial Phases of the Establishment of Buddhist Communities in Early India -- Legacy of the Mauryans: Asoka as Dharmaraja -- Migrations, Material Exchanges, and Cross-Cultural Transmission in Northwestern Contact Zones -- Saka Migrants and Mediators between Central Asia and South Asia -- Dynamics of Mobility during the Kusana Period -- Shifting Networks of Political Power and Institutional Patronage during the Gupta Period -- Cross-Cultural Transmission between South Asia and Central Asia, ca. 500-1000 CE -- Trade Networks in Ancient South Asia -- Northern Route (Uttarapatha) -- Southern Route (Daksinapatha) -- Seaports and Maritime Routes across the Indian Ocean -- Old Roads in the Northwestern Borderlands -- Environmental Conditions for Buddhist Transmission in Gandhara -- Gandharan Material and Literary Cultures -- Gandharan Nodes and Networks -- Routes of Buddhist Missionaries and Pilgrims to and from Gandhara -- Domestication of Gandharan Buddhism -- Capillary Routes of the Upper Indus. Geography, Economy, and Capillary Routes in a High Altitude Environment -- Graffiti, Petroglyphs, and Pilgrims -- Enigma of an Absence of Archaeological Evidence and Manifestations of Buddhist Presence -- Long-Distance Transmission to Central Asian Silk Routes and China. Silk Routes of Eastern Central Asia -- Long-distance Transmission Reconsidered -- Alternative Paths and Paradigms of Buddhist Transmission. Catalysts for the Formation and Expansion of the Buddhist Sangha -- Changing Paradigms for Buddhist Transmission within and beyond South Asia
Note:
Also issued in print and PDF version.
,
In English
URL:
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URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
