Introduction Carmen Meinert
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries),
10/2015
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
Central Asia is central in understanding global historical processes—despite the fact that its role in global history is one of the most neglected even today. It is the missing link through which not ...only Eurasian or world history is more fully understood, but also, as this volume aims to acknowledge, of major importance in religious history. In reality, this region was not simply a transition zone through which many of the world’s cultural and religious achievements, monks and mullahs, goods and ideas travelled from one civilisation to another—be it India, Persia, China or Tibet—but is the place
Foreword Carmen Meinert; Henrik H. Sørensen
Buddhism in Central Asia I,
01/2020
Book Chapter
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The ERC funded project Dynamics in Buddhist Network in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th Centuries (short: BuddhistRoad) aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in ...the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in premodern Eastern Central Asia—the vast area extending from the Taklamakan Desert to North-east China. This region was the crossroads of ancient civilisations. Its uniqueness was determined by the complex dynamics of religious and cultural exchanges gravitating around an ancient communication artery known as the Silk Road. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange; its transfer predetermined the transfer
INTRODUCTION Carmen Meinert; Henrik H. Sørensen
Buddhism in Central Asia I,
01/2020
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
The present volume is the proceedings of the start-up conference “Establishing of Buddhist Nodes in Eastern Central Asia 6th to 14th C. Part I: Sacred Space, Pilgrimage, Patronage, Legitimation ...Strategies” of the BuddhistRoad project, which was held at Ruhr-Universität Bochum on 23–25 May, 2018.¹ The themes chosen for this volume are similar to those that constitute the research clusters of the BuddhistRoad project, and are thus part of an attempt at encompassing the salient and observable features that manifested in the Buddhist centres along the networks of the Silk Road and beyond.² At the same time, these themes reflect
