The Spread of Buddhism

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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