Chapter Two. Historical Contexts For The Emergence And Transmission Of Buddhism Within South Asia

Neelis, Jason

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“…During Kaniska's reign (127-150 CE), the Kushan territory reached its greatest extent and further extended from central Asia to the Indo-Gangetic plain, revealing Kanishka's political abilities and ambitions [8]. Moreover, the Rabatak inscription, a stone that recorded Kanishka's rule, directly discloses Kanishka's active intention to consolidate his empire through religious activities: "And the king, the son of the gods, was *pacifying all India from the year one to the year *six.…”

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“…The conflict between doctrine and philosophy among the monks led to the emergence of Hinayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism, which Kanishka promoted the latter [11]. Kanishka's endorsement of Mahayana Buddhism is evident in various texts, including Sarvastivadin and Mahayana scriptures, which have been preserved in languages such as Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese [8]. Since Mahayana Buddhism advocates equality and benevolence, with salvation for all beings, this religion's ideology fits well with Kanishka's political needs because of its ability to soothe the Kushan people [12].…”

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Cultural Embracement and Incorporation: The Analysis of Kanishka Coins

Liu

2024

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This paper aims to discuss the political intention of Kanishka through the coins circulated during his reign and the historical context of the Kushan empire. Although there are studies discussing Kanishkas effort to promote Mahayana Buddhism, there is insufficient literature that comprehensively relates Kanishka's religious beliefs to the political means and context of the era and reveals the complexity of Kanishkas intention. Hence, this work synthesizes and discusses the reasons for the unprecedented appearance of Buddhist elements in the Kanishka coin through Kanishka's support for Buddhism, Kanishka's political intentions, and the diversity of the Kushana religions. The multifaceted analysis of Kanishka coins and supplementary evidence suggests that although Kanishka may utilized the promotion of Mahayana Buddhism as a unifying force, he did not limit the development of other religions in the reign but rather encouraged religious diversity, in order to foster stability, harmony and prosperity of the empire.

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Cultural Embracement and Incorporation: The Analysis of Kanishka Coins

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“…If this was indeed the case, we can start exploring new interpretive models for evaluating the historic and cultural ties between northern Pakistan, Central Asia, and the Himalayan countries. 57 For a critical reappraisal of this question, see Neelis (2002; Id. 2010: 257 ff.…”

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Art and Landscape : Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Late Antique Swat/Uḍḍiyāna

Filigenzi¹

2015

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W i t h c o n t r i b u t i o n s b y l u c A M A r i A o l i v i e r iA n d A n o t e b y P e t e r r o c k W e l l FOREWORDThe project that has given birth to this long-awaited volume has its roots in the very beginning of the Italian activity in Swat. The first rock reliefs, not counting those introduced by Sir Aurel Stein, were in fact published in 1958 by Giuseppe Tucci in his seminal Preliminary Report on an Archaeological Survey in Swat which presented to the scholarly community the results of his survey of 1955.Belonging to a late chronological horizon close to that of Padmasambhava, these Buddhist sculptures were no doubt one of the reasons that led to IsMEO's decision to invest efforts and resources in Swat.The dates of arrival in the IsMEO photographic archive of images of rock reliefs from Swat gives a clear idea of how since 1955 more than one generation of scholars has shown an interest in this class of artefacts, if only in the shape of photographs and a few notes on the discovery of new reliefs: from the 1950s to the 1980s, new records were accumulated by Domenico Faccenna, Francesca Bonardi, Maurizio Taddei, Alfredo Vallazza, Pietro Guj, Enrico Cimmino, Umberto Scerrato, Francesco Noci and Pierfrancesco Callieri. In 1987, in his capacity as director of the IsMEO Italian Archaeological Mission, Domenico Faccenna set up a comprehensive project to survey and study these rock reliefs, entrusting its execution to Anna Filigenzi and Luca Maria Olivieri, who had both recently joined the Mission. Anna Filigenzi had been one of the most brilliant students of Maurizio Taddei at the Oriental University of Naples, while Luca Maria Olivieri was a graduate of the Department of Historical, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences of the University of Rome La Sapienza. The choice was intended to provide the study with a global approach in which the record of the topographical context was accorded equal importance with the iconographic interpretation of the reliefs.Since 1987 the systematic activity of surveying and recording carried out by Luca Maria Olivieri has made considerable progress. Along with the main groups of reliefs already known, which were surveyed again using a new and more thorough methodological approach, further complexes as well as isolated reliefs were identified and surveyed, and the area of research was extended to new areas adjoining Swat, in particular Puran and Buner. The study of the topographical distribution of the reliefs has proved to be of the greatest interest, suggesting new functional interpretations.Most of the activity of survey and recording was completed in a relatively short space of time, as it was merged with that undertaken for the project of the Archaeological Map of Swat. The long hiatus between that period and this publication is due not only to the political events which have affected the recent history of Swat but also to the reasons that Anna Filigenzi describes so effectively in her Preface and Introduction and which allowed her to resist with incredible...

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Chapter Two. Historical Contexts For The Emergence And Transmission Of Buddhism Within South Asia

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Cultural Embracement and Incorporation: The Analysis of Kanishka Coins

Cultural Embracement and Incorporation: The Analysis of Kanishka Coins

Art and Landscape : Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Late Antique Swat/Uḍḍiyāna

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