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Buddhism Across Asia
Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange, volume 1
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: Buddhism in Asian History
- Part I. Transmissions of Buddhism Before the Seventh Century
- 1. Networks for Long-distance Transmission of Buddhism in South Asian Transit Zones
- 2. Truth and Scripture in Early Buddhism: Categorial Reduction as Exegetical Method in Ancient GandhÄra and Beyond
- 3. Now You Hear it, Now You Donāt: The Phrase āThus Have I Heardā in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations
- 4. The First 'Agama Transmission to China
- 5. What is a āHÄ«nayÄna Zealotā Doing in Fifth-Century China?
- 6. Meditation Traditions in Fifth-Century Northern China: With a Special Note on a Forgotten āKaÅmÄ«riā Meditation Tradition Brought to China by Buddhabhadra (359-429)
- 7. Transmission of the Dharma and Reception of the Text: Oral and Aural Features in the Fifth Chapter of the Book of Zambasta
- Part II. Buddhism Across Asia between the Seventh and Fifteenth Centuries
- 8. On Kuijiās Sanskrit Compound Analyses: Transmission of Sanskrit Grammar in the Early Tang Dynasty
- 9. Abridged Teaching (LĆ¼e Jiao): Monastic Rules between India and China
- 10. From NÄlandÄ to Changāan: A Survey of Buddhist Libraries in Medieval China (618-907)
- 11. Multiple Traditions in One Ritual: A Reading of the Lantern-Lighting Prayers in Dunhuang Manuscripts
- 12. The Idea of India (Tenjiku) in Pre-Modern Japan: Issues of Signification and Representation in the Buddhist Translation of Cultures
- 13. The Buddhist Image Inside-Out: On the Placing of Objects Inside Statues in East Asia
- 14. Indian Abhidharma Literature in Tibet: A Study of the VijƱÄna Section of Sthiramatiās PaƱcaskandhakavibhÄį¹£Ä
- 15. From AĀ«soka to Jayavarman VII: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia
- 16. The Therav"ada Buddhist Ecumene in the Fifteenth Century: Intellectual Foundations and Material Representations
- Part III. Buddhist Connections after the Fifteenth Century
- 17. The Sphere of the S"asana in the Context of Colonialism
- 18. Patronage and Place: The Shwedagon in Times of Change
- 19. Wang Hongyuan and the Import of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism to China during the Republican Period
- 20. Buddhist Practices and Institutions of the Chinese Community in Kolkata, India
- Contributors
- Index