Multicultural Religious Interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia

Chapter 1. Introduction (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).- Part 1. Central Asia.- Chapter 2. Textual Archaeology: On sacred groves in Hellenised Central Asia (Mendoza).- Chapter 3. Making Space for Buddhism: Early Buddhist Practice in Hellenistic Central Asian Religious Spaces (Ross).- Chapter 4. The merging of Theravadin and Mahasa?ghika traditions in the decoration of Ha??a monasteries (Vanleene).- Chapter 5. Power through religion and religion through power. Royal agency and local cults in Hellenistic Central Asia and Northwest India (Coloru).- Part 2. South Asia.- Chapter 6. Representation of Gandhara as a multireligious place in Vita Apollonii by Philostratus (Kubica).- Chapter 7. Dance around the Buddha: Multicultural Performances in Gandharan Art (Lakshminarayanan).- Chapter 8. Jaina and Virasaiva Interactions in South India: Archaeological Evidence for Dependencies and Mutual Exchange (Hegewald).- Chapter 9. "Protector of all Practices": The Religious Endowments of a Hoysa?a Queen (Gururaja).- Chapter 10. Conclusions (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).

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• História da Ásia
• História da religião
• Arqueologia por períodos e regiões
• Estudos cultirais

Religious interaction history of Asia;Central Asia archaeology of religion;South Asia archaeology of religion;Gandhara history of religion;Antiquity and Asia;religious ritual asia;history of Buddhism;history of Numismatics;Alexander III and religion