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Map 0.1 Network of Buddhist nodes in Eastern Central Asia
(map kindly prepared by Jürgen Schörflinger)5
5 This map includes most of the important sites (major and minor nodes), routes and regions
mentioned in the chapters of this volume; it makes no claim to be complete. Also the
names of various kingdoms and empires mentioned in different chapters of this volume are
included—simply for a rough orientation, yet neither with strict borders nor in chronological