Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks

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Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks
Author : Jason Neelis
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Publisher : BRILL
Language : English
Release Date : 19 November 2010
ISBN : 9789004181595
Pages : 391 pages
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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.

Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks

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.

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Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks

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

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Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks

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.

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