The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
164 CHAPTER SEVEN instability, it has no choice but to take the risk. Given the enormous forces for change that have swept over ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 165 to karma present in popular Buddhism; from adhering more closely to the Five Precep ...
8 BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA Central Asia 8.1 The Dharma Travels the Silk Road C entral Asia's contribution to the histo ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 167 scriptions in Afghanistan serve as evidence of Asoka's efforts in spreading the Dharma to ...
168 CHAPTER EIGHT the Silk Road divided into a northern route through Samarkand and a south- ern one along the Amu River. The tw ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 169 Tun-huang became not only a translation center but also a center of Bud- dhist art, known ...
170 CHAPTER EIGHT the Silk Road fell into disuse as newly opened sea routes offered a passage that was both quicker and less haz ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 171 a consistent explanation for the individual sufferings experienced on all levels of socie ...
172 CHAPTER EIGHT when a Taoist emperor ordered the destruction of almost the entire institu- tion. Eventually, however, the San ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 173 ogy. Interestingly enough, the Buddhist doctrine of karma and the belief in the primacy o ...
174 CHAPTER EIGHT Taoist sage Lao-tzu, who had gone west at one point in his career to teach the barbarians. The Buddhists may h ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 175 gaining converts among the peasants, the petty bureaucrats, and even from the courts, as ...
176 CHAPTER EIGHT from all levels of society, including those orphaned by the sporadic warfare as well as those whose general ex ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 177 modes of Sangha life: large monastic estates patronized by the ruling elites, smaller vil ...
178 CHAPTER EIGHT China, the monastics could escape with copies of their scriptures to other parts of the empire. In both cases ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 179 They made a distinction between the basic principles underlying the insights of the class ...
180 CHAPTER EIGHT there is no single underlying principle of the universe, and no difference be- tween essence and function. Wor ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 181 and inconsistencies in the various translations then available. When in 379 he was captur ...
182 CHAPTER EIGHT and tathagata-garbha, which the Chinese interpreted as fo-hsing (Buddha- nature), became more and more promine ...
BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA 183 provide a comprehensive framework for all Buddhist teachings laid the ground- work for th ...
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