Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian networks (7th to 13th centuries) /

The interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries) , edited by Carmen Meinert, offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It looks at the region as an integrated (religious) whole...

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Other Authors: Meinert, Carmen.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2015.

Series: Dynamics in the History of Religions 8.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Call Number: BQ574 .T73 2015

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction-Dynamics of Buddhist Transfer in Central Asia /
  • Carmen Meinert
  • 1 Changing Relations between Administration, Clergy and Lay People in Eastern Central Asia: A Case Study according to the Dunhuang Manuscripts Referring to the Transition from Tibetan to Local Rule in Dunhuang, 8th-11th Centuries /
  • Gertraud Taenzer
  • 2 Tibetan Buddhism in Central Asia: Geopolitics and Group Dynamics /
  • Sam van Schaik
  • 3 The Transmission of Sanskrit Manuscripts from India to Tibet: The Case of a Manuscript Collection in the Possession of Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījnāna (980-1054) /
  • Kano Kazuo
  • 4 The Tibetan Himalayan Style: Considering the Central Asian Connection /
  • Linda Lojda , Deborah Klimburg-Salter and Monica Strinu
  • 5 Origins of the Kashmiri Style in the Western Himalayas: Sculpture of the 7th-11th Centuries /
  • Rob Linrothe
  • 6 Buddhism in the West Uyghur Kingdom and Beyond /
  • Jens Wilkens
  • 7 Esoteric Buddhism at the Crossroads: Religious Dynamics at Dunhuang, 9th-10th Centuries /
  • Henrik H. Sørensen
  • Bibliography
  • Index.