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 : Mobility and Exchange Within and Beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia
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Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks : Mobility and Exchange Within and Beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of Tables, Maps and Figures
- Chapter One Introduction: Road Map for Travelers
- Chapter Two Historical Contexts for the Emergence and Transmission of Buddhism within South Asia
- Chapter Three Trade Networks in Ancient South Asia
- Chapter Four Old Roads in the Northwestern Borderlands
- Chapter Five Capillary Routes of the Upper Indus
- Chapter Six Long-Distance Transmission to Central Asian Silk Routes and China
- Chapter Seven Conclusion: Alternative Paths and Paradigms of Buddhist Transmission
- Bibliography
- Index
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