Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks : mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia
by
Neelis, Jason Emmanuel.
Title
:
Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks : mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia
Dynamics in the history of religion ;
Author
:
Neelis, Jason Emmanuel.
ISBN
:
9789004181595
Personal Author
:
Neelis, Jason Emmanuel.
Publication Information
:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Physical Description
:
xviii, 371 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series
:
Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 2
Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 2.
Contents
:
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.
Subject Term
:
Buddhist geography -- Asia.
Trade routes -- Asia -- History.
Buddhists -- Travel -- Asia.
Bibliographical References
:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 10601040 BQ270 N44 ysh
Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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NPM Library | BQ270 N44 2011 | 10601040 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |