Buddhism in Iran

Vaziri, Mostafa:
Buddhism in Iran : An Anthropological Approach to Traces and Influences / Mostafa Vaziri. - Houndmills, Basingstoke (UK) ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - ca. 286 S.
ISBN 978-1-137-02293-6
£ 60,00 / US$ 90,00
DDC: 305.69430955; 294.30955
-- Angekündigt für Juli 2012 --

Beschreibung
Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, this book demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought the material and spiritual culture of Iran to its present state. Even after the term 'Buddhism' was eradicated from the literary and popular languages of the region, it has continued to have a significant impact on the culture as a whole. In the course of its history, Iranian culture adopted and assimilated a system of Buddhist art, iconography, religious symbolism, literature, and asceticism due to the open border of eastern Iran with the Buddhist regions, and the resultant intermingling of the two worlds. [Macmillan]

Inhalt
List of Maps and Figures. ix
Foreword. xi
Acknowledgments. xiii
Abbreviations of Journals. xv
Prologue: Goal of the the Book and the Method. xvii
Part I: The Beginning
   1. Introduction to the Buddha's Key Spiritual and Philosophical Concepts. 3
Part II: The Early Interactions
   2. The Early Spread and Influences of Buddhism in Iran. 15
   3. Mānī, 'the Buddha of Light'. 29
Part III: The Traces
   4. The Legendary Story of the Buddha in Iran. 43
   5. Qadamgāh (Holy Footprints) and Monastic Caves in Iran. 67
   6. Nawbahār and Stūpa-Like Islamic Shrines. 89
   7. Buddhism during the Mongol Period in Iran. 111
Part IV: The Influences
   8. Buddhism and Early Asceticism in Iran. 135
   9. Jābir ibn Hayyān, Ibn Sīnā and Mīr Fenderiskī: Any Buddhist Associations? 155
Conclusion.167
Appendix: Non-Violence and Rationalism: A Crypto-Buddhist Influence. 169
Notes. 173
Glossary of Terminologies. 219
Bibliography. 223
Index. 247

Autor
MOSTAFA VAZIRI is a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, visiting fellow in the Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, and the author of several books including Iran as Imagined Nation: The Construction of National Identity.

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