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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Contents: Introduction. I. Transmissions of Buddhism before the seventh century: 1. Networks for long-distance transmission of Buddhism in South Asian transit zones/Jason Neelis. 2. Truth and scripture in early Buddhism: categorial reduction as exegetical method in ancient Gandhara and beyond/Stefan Baums. 3. Now you hear it now you don't: the phrase thus have I heard in early Chinese Buddhist translations/Jan Nattier. 4. The first agama transmission to China/Elsa Legittimo. 5. What is a Hinayana Zealot doing in fifth-century China?/Daniel Boucher. 6. Meditation traditions in fifth-century Northern China: with a special note on a forgotten Kasmiri Meditation tradition brought to China by Buddhabhadra 359-429/Chen Jinhua. 7. Transmission of the Dharma and reception of the text: oral and aural features in the fifth chapter of the book of Zambasta/Giuliana Martini. II. Buddhism across Asia between the seventh and fifteenth centuries: 8. On Kuji's Sanskrit compound analyses: transmission of Sanskrit grammar in the early Tang dynasty/Teng Weijen. 9. Abridged teaching Lue Jiao: monastic rules between India and China/Ann Heirman. 10. From Nalanda to Changan: a survey of Buddhist libraries in medieval China 618-907/Wang Xiang. 11. Multiple traditions in one ritual: a reading of the Lantern lighting prayers in Dunhuang manuscripts/Chen Huaiyu. 12. The idea of India Tenjiku in pre-modern Japan: issues of signification and representation in the Buddhist translation of cultures/Fabio Rambelli. 13. The Buddhist image inside out: on the placing of objects inside statues in East Asia/James Robson. 14. Indian abhidharma literature in Tibet: a study of the Vijnana section of Sthiramatis Pancaskandhakavibhasa/Jowita Kramer. 15. From Asoka to Jayavarman VII: Some reflections on the relationship between Buddhism and the state in India and Southeast Asia/Hermann Kulke. 16. The Theravada Buddhist ecumene in the fifteenth century: intellectual foundations and material representations/Tilman Frasch. III. Buddhist connections after the fifteenth century: 17. The sphere of the Sasana in the context of colonialism/Anne M. Blackburn. 18. Patronage and place: the Shwedagon in times of change/Elizabeth Howard-Moore. 19. Wang Hongyuan and the import of Japanese esoteric Buddhism to China during the Republican period/Erik Schicketanz. 20. Buddhist practices and institutions of the Chinese community in Kolkata, India/Zhang Xiang. Index. The twenty chapters of Buddhism Across Asia present the development of Buddhism over a span of 2000 yearsfrom its early integration, to its growth and expansion into multiple centres, up to the age of European expansion. The essays discuss meditation, philosophy, and language, literature, monastic rules, and ritualdynamic factors in the transmission and translation of intellectual crosscurrents from India throughout Asia. Studies include the emerging field of Gandharan Buddhism and the ever-fascinating Book of Zambasta from ancient Khotan, nodal points that lead on to the transmission of the Buddhist Dharma from Northwest India across Central Asia to the Middle Kingdom. The authors are specialists in the diverse fields of Buddhist studies. In this volume they step beyond their specialisations to address broader questions of cultural exchange and intellectual history. The networks are thus described through conversations between primary sources and the latest methodologies. The contributions interact to constitute an engaging collection of essays that reflects the thematics of the best contemporary scholarship. Buddhism Across Asia is an outstanding and refreshing testament to the dynamic of Buddhism in history and the state of the art of international Buddhist studies.