Contents:
Acknowledgements
General Abbreviations
Bibliographical Abbreviations
Illustrations
Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Dynamics of Buddhist Transfer in Central Asia
CARMEN MEINERT
- Changing political and Religious Contexts in Central Asia on a
Micoro-Historical Level
Chapter 1: Changing Relations between Administration, Clergy and
Lay People in Eastern Central Asia: A Case Study According to the
Dunhuang Manuscripts Referring to the Transition from Tibetan to
Local Rule in Dunhuang, 8th–11th Centuries
GERTRAUD TAENZER
- Textual Transfer
Chapter 2: Tibetan Buddhism in Central Asia: Geopolitics and Group
Dynamics
SAM VAN SCHAIK
Chapter 3: The Transmission of Sanskrit Manuscripts from India to
Tibet: The Case of a Manuscript Collection in the Possession of
Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (980–1054)
KAZUO KANO
- Visual Transfer
Chapter 4: The Tibetan Himalayan Style: Considering the Central
Asian Connection
LINDA LOJDA/DEBORAH KLIMBURG-SALTER/ MONICA STRINU
Chapter 5: Origins of the Kashmiri Style in the Western Himalayas:
Sculpture of the 7th–11th Centuries
ROB LINROTHE
- Transfer Agents
Chapter 6: Buddhism in the West Uyghur Kingdom and Beyond
JENS WILKENS
Chapter 7: Esoteric Buddhism at the Crossroads: Religious Dynamics
at Dunhuang, 9th–10th Centuries
HENRIK H. SØRENSEN
- Bibliography
- Index
Carmen Meinert, Dr. phil. (2001), Bonn University, is Professor of
Central Asian Religions at Bochum University. She has published on
Buddhism in Central Asia, on Tibetan-Chinese relations, and
monographs including Buddha in the Yurt — Buddhist Art from
Mongolia (Hirmer, 2011).
Contributors are: Kazuo Kano, Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Rob
Linrothe, Linda Lojda, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, Monica
Strinu, Gertraud Taenzer, Sam van Schaik, Jens Wilkens.
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