Buddhism in Central Asia

Buddhism in Central Asia
Title Buddhism in Central Asia PDF eBook
Author Baij Nath Puri
Publisher Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Pages 398
Release 1987
Genre Religion
ISBN 9788120803725

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Buddhism in Central Asia is a saga of peaceful pursuit by Buddhist scholars from Kashmir and Kabul to propagate the message of the Buddha. This vast region between the Tien-Shan and the Kunlun ranges was the centre of activities of these Buddhist savants. Here people of different races and professions, speaking many languages, were finally blended into a cosmopolitan culture. This created an intellectual climate of high order. In this context, the famous silk trade route was helpful in adding to the material prosperity of the people in this region. The present study, therefore, is not one of Buddhism in isolation. It equally provides an account of the political forces confronting each other during the course of history of this region for well over a thousand years. For centuries the drifting desert sand of Central Asia enveloped this civilization and the religion connected with it. The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century explorers and archaeologists successfully uncovered it at different centres along the old Silk Route. This has been helpful for a comprehensive study of Buddhism with its literature and art. The finds of hundreds of inscriptions have added to the cultural dimensions of the study.

Greek Buddha

Greek Buddha
Title Greek Buddha PDF eBook
Author Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 299
Release 2017-02-28
Genre History
ISBN 0691176329

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Presents a history of early Buddhism based solely on dateable artefacts and archaeology rather than received tradition, much of which data is provided by studying Pyrrho's history

Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia

Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Title Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia PDF eBook
Author Simone Gaulier
Publisher BRILL
Pages 100
Release 1976
Genre Art
ISBN 9789004047440

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Emanated Buddhas in the Aureole of Buddhist Images from India, Central Asia, and China

Emanated Buddhas in the Aureole of Buddhist Images from India, Central Asia, and China
Title Emanated Buddhas in the Aureole of Buddhist Images from India, Central Asia, and China PDF eBook
Author Tianshu Zhu
Publisher
Pages 524
Release 2019
Genre Art
ISBN 9781604979480

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This study examines the small figures, mostly Buddhas, depicted in the aureole of Buddha images. This motif has appeared in various places in Central Asia and East Asia throughout the centuries. By contextualizing these images in local history and local Buddhism, this book sheds light on issues in Buddhist history and cultural transmission.

Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 2 The Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period in China and Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in Central Asia (2 vols)

Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 2 The Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period in China and Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in Central Asia (2 vols)
Title Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 2 The Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period in China and Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in Central Asia (2 vols) PDF eBook
Author Marylin Martin Rhie
Publisher BRILL
Pages 1635
Release 2019-07-15
Genre Art
ISBN 900439186X

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Volume two of Marylin Rhie’s widely acclaimed and formative multi-volume work presents a comprehensive, scholarly and detailed study of the Buddhist art of China and Central Asia from 316-439 A.D. during the formative early periods of Buddhism in the Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period. Using texts translated from the Chinese together with stylistic and technical analyses, the chronology and sources of the art are more clearly defined than in previous studies for the regions of South and North China (other than Kansu) and the important sites of Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr on the Northern Silk Route in eastern Central Asia. Furthermore, by incorporating extensive religious and historical materials, this work not only contributes to clarifying the regional characteristics of the art, but also offers new insights into the broader, interregional relationships of this politically fragmented period.

Dynamics in the History of Religions Between Asia and Europe

Dynamics in the History of Religions Between Asia and Europe
Title Dynamics in the History of Religions Between Asia and Europe PDF eBook
Author Volkhard Krech
Publisher BRILL
Pages 545
Release 2011-11-25
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004185003

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The conference volume of the Bochumer Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” outlines the thesis that religion is not a homogeneous cultural phenomenon, but a dense network of diachronically and synchronically differing traditions.

Buddha in Central Asia

Buddha in Central Asia
Title Buddha in Central Asia PDF eBook
Author Sunita Dwivedi
Publisher Rupa Publications India
Pages 452
Release 2014-09-01
Genre Travel
ISBN 9788129134677

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Intrepid author, traveller and researcher, Sunita Dwivedi set out on an exhaustive journey through Central Asia in search of ancient statutes of Buddha. Retracing the paths forged by great Buddhist monks over the centuries, she negotiated scorching deserts, lush meadows, dry steppe lands, snow-capped mountains and gushing river valleys to chronicle the life and times of the many Budh viharas in which these statues had been instated. Drawing upon her extensive sojourns, Sunita recreates in this volume the bygone eras in which these shrines were once great centres of learning and devotion. And, juxtaposing past grandeur with the dereliction of the present, Sunita brings back to vivid life the holy path of dharma these viharas once espoused.