Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks: mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2015]
Leiden Boston 2011 |
| In: |
Dynamics in the history of religions (volume 2)
Year: 2011 |
| Series/Journal: | Dynamics in the history of religions
volume 2 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Buddhism
/ Spread of
/ Asia
/ History
B Asia / Trade routes / Buddhism / Spread of / History B Asia / Buddhism / Spread of / History |
| Further subjects: | B
Trade routes Asia History
B Buddhist geography (Asia) B Buddhist geography Asia B Trade routes (Asia) History B Buddhists Travel (Asia) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Available to subscribing member institutions only Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004194584 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004181595.i-372 |