CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ..................................................................... ix
Introduction: The Spread of Buddhism .................................... 1
Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher
The First Turning of the Wheel of the Doctrine—
Sarvstivda and Mahsghika Controversy ...................... 15
Bart Dessein
Buddhism in Gandhra .............................................................. 49
Siglinde Dietz
The Spread of Buddhism in Serindia—Buddhism among
Iranians, Tocharians and Turks before the 13th century ...... 75
Xavier Tremblay
Greece, the Final Frontier?—The Westward Spread of
Buddhism ................................................................................ 131
Erik Seldeslachts
Vinaya: from India to China ....................................................... 167
Ann Heirman
Early Buddhism in China: Daoist Reactions ............................. 203
Stephan Peter Bumbacher
Tantric Threads between India and China ............................... 247
Martin Lehnert
The Accounts of Milbon, Hyet’ong and Myöngnang in
the Samguk yusa ........................................................................ 277
Pol Vanden Broucke†, edited by Sem Vermeersch
The Buddhist Way into Tibet .................................................... 303
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
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