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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404254603321

Autore

Meinert Carmen

Titolo

Buddhism in Central Asia / / edited by Carmen Meinert, Henrik Sørensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2020

Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2020

ISBN

90-04-41773-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Dynamics in the History of Religions; ; volume 11

Disciplina

294.30951/4

Soggetti

Buddhism - Asia, Central

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Patronage, legitimation, sacred space, and pilgrimage

Sommario/riassunto

"The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd-25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on "patronage and legitimation strategy" as well as "sacred space and pilgrimage."".