Die Ausbreitung des Buddhismus --- Hg.: Ann Heirman und Stephan Peter Bumbacher

Ann Heirman and 
Stephan Peter Bumbacher
(eds.):The Spread of Buddhism
Serie: Asian Studies
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies, Band: 16
Leiden: Brill 2007 x, 474 pp., 1 illustr.
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ISBN: 

978-90-47-42006-4

Verlagsinformtion / Information of the Editor

In no region of the world Buddhism can be seen as a unified doctrinal system. It rather consists of a multitude of different ideas, practices and behaviours. Geographical, social, political, economic, philosophical, religious, and also linguistic factors all played their role in its development and spread, but this role was different from region to region. Based on up-to-date research, this book aims at unraveling the complex factors that shaped the presence of particular forms of Buddhism in the regions to the north and the east of India. The result is a fascinating view on the mechanisms that allowed or hampered the presence of (certain aspects of) Buddhism in regions such as Central Asia, China, Tibet, Mongolia, or Korea. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents

Preliminary material
---A. Heirman and S.P. Bumbacher
--- S. I-IX

Introduction: The Spread of buddhism
--- Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher
--- (S. 1–14)

The first turning of the wheel of the doctrine 
---  Bart Dessein --- S.  15–48

Buddhism in Gandhara
--- Siglinde Dietz --- S. 49–74

The spread of buddhism in Serindia—Buddhism among iranians, tocharians and turks before the 13th century
--- Xavier Tremblay --- S. 75–129

Greece, the final frontier?—
The westward spread of buddhism
--- Erik Seldeslachts --- S.131–166

Vinaya: from India to China--- Ann Heirman --- S. 167–202

Early buddhism in China: Daoist reactions
--- Stephan Peter Bumbacher --- S. 203–246

Tantric threads between India and China
--- Martin Lehnert --- S. 247–276

The Accounts of Milbon, Hyet’ong
and Myŏngnang in the Samguk Yusa 
--- Pol Vanden Broucke --- S. 277–302

The buddhist way into Tibet--- Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz --- S. 303–340

The later spread of buddhism in Tibet
--- Sven Bretfeld --- S. 341–377

The history of buddhism among the mongols 
---  Klaus Sagaster --- S. 379–432

The spread of Chan (Zen) buddhism 
--- T. Griffith Foulk --- S. 433–456

Index of names --- A. Heirman and S.P. Bumbacher
--- S. 457–464

Index of places --- A. Heirman and S.P. Bumbacher
--- S. 465–470

Index of titles --- A. Heirman and S.P. Bumbacher
--- S. 471–474