Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks

Neelis, Jason

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“…As the cases that follow show, the approach is useful not only for understanding religion in the contemporary scene, but also for developing nuanced historical studies of the changing dynamics of religious production, circulation, and practice. Jason Neelis (2011), for example, has studied the transmission of Buddhism in South and Central Asia across transregional trade and administrative networks, which included systems of patronage as well as the active participation of itinerant Buddhist monks and nuns in commercial exchanges.…”

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The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

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2022

The Round Table

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The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments.Following three decades of intense debate about globalization and transnationalism, it has become clear that border-crossing connections and interactions between societies are highly important, yet not all extend beyond the borders of nation-states or are of truly world-wide reach. The product of extensive international and interdisciplinary cooperation, this handbook is divided into ten sections that introduce the wide variety of topics within transregional studies, including Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies, Spatial Formats, International Organizations, Religions and Religious Movements, and Transregional Studies and Narratives of Globalization. Recognizing that transregional studies asks about the space-making and space-formatting character of connections as well as the empirical status of such connections under the global condition, the volume reaches beyond the typical confines of area and regional studies to consider how areas are transcended and transformed more widely.Combining case studies with both theoretical and methodological considerations, The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies provides the first overview of the currently flourishing field of transregional studies and is the ideal volume for students and scholars of this diverse subject and its related fields.

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2022

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“…By contrast, the descriptions of Yavanas as resident guards, mercenaries or artisans may refer to the Yavanas who lived near the Gulf of Barygaza and the western Ghats. Through their connections to western India's sea lanes and to its overland 'southern route', which facilitated physical and social pathways to southern India, 78 they perhaps sought opportunities as soldiers or artisans in regions inhabited by speakers of Tamil. Unfortunately, the poems are generally not descriptive of the origins of such Yavanas.…”

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Drops of Greek in a Multilingual Sea: The Egyptian Network and its Residential Presences in the Indian Ocean

Andrade

2017

J. Hell. Stud.

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This article explores one of the remarkable legacies of the Hellenistic Greek world: the subsequent activity in the Indian Ocean of Greek-speaking Egyptians and certain people of India who called themselves Yavanas. But while doing so, it addresses certain vexing issues. One is whether merchants from Roman Egypt established stable residential communities in the ports of India during the first and second centuries AD. Another is how Yavanas living near the Gulf of Barygaza and the western Ghats in western India came to call themselves by a term borne centuries earlier by Greeks living in regions of northern India. By probing these issues, the article sheds light on how travellers and expatriates from Roman Egypt, and the Greek language and culture that they often carried with them, fit into the multilingual and multicultural web of a connected Indian Ocean. But it also formulates how a commercial network of Egyptians established residential settlements in the ports of India that generated and transmitted local knowledge to other members of the network. The author of the notable Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Periplus Maris Erythraei) was arguably both a participant in the network and a recipient of its knowledge.

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“…Oskar von Hinuber has reconstructed the chronology and genealogy of Palola Sahis [for further details see : 8]. Names of Palola Sahi rulers, their family members and courtiers are mentioned among the donors in the colophons of Buddhist manuscripts discovered in the Karakoram Himalayan region [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][77][78][79][80][81][82][83]. The dynasty and their court offi cials would "participate in the Mahayan 'Cult of the Book' in which devotees made religious offerings by having many Buddhist sutras written down" [11.…”

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Karakoram Himalayas and Central Asia. The Buddhist Connection

Warikoo

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2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Vseobŝ. istor.

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The Karakoram-Himalayan region is the cradle from where ancient Indian culture including Buddhism spread to different directions in Central Asia, East Asia and South East Asia. Gilgit, Chilas, Chitral, Baltistan, Ladakh, Zanskar and other frontier areas have been important mileposts on the famous Silk Route. Buddhist savants from India contributed to the spread of Buddhism in Central Asia and East Asia. One of the eminent scholars was Kumarajiva (344-413 AD) who broke political, geographical, cultural and linguistic barriers for propagation of Buddhism. Hieun Tsiang mentions four important centres of Buddhism in Central Asia-Shan-shan (Kroraina), Khotan, Kucha and Turfan. Kashmir played an important role in introducing Buddhism to Khotan, which in turn played a key role in the transmission of Buddhism to China. Several important places on the Silk Route system such as Kucha, Balkh, Bamiyan, Khotan, Kashgar etc. developed into important centres of Buddhism when parts of Central Asia and northwestern India were integrated into a single kingdom under the Kushans.

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Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks

Cited by 109 publications

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The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

Drops of Greek in a Multilingual Sea: The Egyptian Network and its Residential Presences in the Indian Ocean

Karakoram Himalayas and Central Asia. The Buddhist Connection

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