Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks

Neelis, Jason:
Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks : Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia / Jason Neelis. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2011. - 364 S. - (Dynamics in the History of Religions ; 2)
Hochschulschrift. Teilw. zugl.: Seattle, Univ. of Washington, Diss., 2001 unter dem Titel: Long-distance trade and the transmission of Buddhism through northern Pakistan, primarily based on Kharoṣṭhi and Brahmi inscriptions
ISBN 978-90-04-18159-5 / 90-04-18159-8
EUR 126,00 / US$ 179,00
DDC: 294.37209021
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Beschreibung
This exploration of early paths for Buddhist transmission within and beyond South Asia retraces the footsteps of monks, merchants, and other agents of cross-cultural exchange. A reassessment of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources reveals hisorical contexts for the growth of the Buddhist saṅgha from approximately the 5th century BCE to the end of the first millennium CE. Patterns of dynamic Buddhist mobility were closely linked to transregional trade networks extending to the northwestern borderlands and joined to Central Asian silk routes by capillary routes through transit zones in the upper Indus and Tarim Basin. By examining material conditions for Buddhist establishments at nodes along these routes, this book challenges models of gradual diffusion and develops alternative explanations for successful Buddhist movement. [Verlagsinformation]

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JASON NEELIS, Ph.D. (2001) in Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, is an Assistant Professor for South Asian Buddhism at the Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, and a Research Fellow for Indian Religious History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Profile page (Wilfrid Laurier University).

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