Neelis, Jason Emmanuel. <br/><br/>
Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks  mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia /  [electronic resource] : 
by Jason Neelis. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2011. 
 - xviii, 371 p. :  ill., maps. 
 - Dynamics in the history of religion,  v. 2  1878-8106 ; .
 - Dynamics in the history of religion ;  v. 2. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Road Map for Travelers. Models for the Movement of Buddhism ; Merit, Merchants, and the Buddhist Sangha ; Sources and Methods for the study of Buddhist ; Transmission ; Outline of Destinations -- Two Historical Contexts for the Emergence and Transmission of Buddhism within South Asia. Initial Phases of the Establishment of Buddhist Communities in Early India ; Legacy of the Mauryans: Asoka as Dharmaraja ; Migrations, Material Exchanges, and Cross-Cultural Transmission in Northwestern Contact Zones ; Saka Migrants and Mediators between Central Asia and South Asia ; Dynamics of Mobility during the Kusana Period ; Shifting Networks of Political Power and Institutional Patronage during the Gupta Period ; Cross-Cultural Transmission between South Asia and Central Asia, ca. 500-1000 CE -- Trade Networks in Ancient South Asia ;  Northern Route (Uttarapatha) ; Southern Route (Daksinapatha) ; Seaports and Maritime Routes across the Indian Ocean -- Old Roads in the Northwestern Borderlands ; Environmental Conditions for Buddhist Transmission in Gandhara ; Gandharan Material and Literary Cultures ; Gandharan Nodes and Networks ; Routes of Buddhist Missionaries and Pilgrims to and from Gandhara ; Domestication of Gandharan Buddhism -- Capillary Routes of the Upper Indus. Geography, Economy, and Capillary Routes in a High Altitude Environment ; Graffiti, Petroglyphs, and Pilgrims ; Enigma of an Absence of Archaeological Evidence and Manifestations of Buddhist Presence -- Long-Distance Transmission to Central Asian Silk Routes and China. Silk Routes of Eastern Central Asia ; Long-distance Transmission Reconsidered --  Alternative Paths and Paradigms of Buddhist Transmission. Catalysts for the Formation and Expansion of the Buddhist Sangha ; Changing Paradigms for Buddhist Transmission within and beyond South Asia. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004194588 (electronic bk.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Buddhist geography--Asia.<br/>Trade routes--History.--Asia<br/>Buddhists--Travel--Asia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BQ270  / .N44 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.3/7209021