Buddhism in Central Asia III: Third conference volume of the BuddhistRoad project published

The third conference volume of the ERC funded project BuddhistRoad has been published.

The volume entitled “Buddhism in Central Asia III—Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines” edited by Lewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Yukiyo Kasai is published as the 14th volume in the series “Dynamics in the History of Religion” (Brill), and is based on the contributions of the final BuddhistRoad conference, held on 12th-14th July, 2021 at Ruhr University Bochum.

Following the publication of the second conference volume, “Buddhism in Central Asia II—Practices and Rituals, Visual and Material Transfer,” edited by Yukiyo Kasai and Henrik H. Sørensen, in 2022, the third volume focuses on two more of the six thematic clusters explored in the BuddhistRoad project, namely aspects of non-Buddhist influences and doctrines.

The first part, “Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences,” deals with the varied contacts between Buddhism and other religious traditions like Manichaeism, Christianity or Daoism in Eastern Central Asia between the 6th and the 14th century, and the influences these encounters had on Buddhist practices, materials, and beliefs.

The second part, “Doctrines,” deals with themes of inter alia Buddhist orthodoxy, transmission of terminology and the geographical instantiation of belief, yet both of the two thematic clusters are in dialogue with each other throughout the volume and thus reflect the lively discussions of the conference itself.

 

Bibliographical Information:

Buddhism in Central Asia III—Impacts of Non-Buddhist Influences, Doctrines, edited by Lewis Doney, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Yukiyo Kasai. Leiden: Brill, 2023 — ISBN: 978-90-04-68728-8.

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Contributors are: Daniel Berounský, Michal Biran, Max Deeg, Lewis Doney, Mélodie Doumy, Meghan Howard Masang, Yukiyo Kasai, Diego Loukota†, Carmen Meinert, Sam van Schaik, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Jens Wilkens.