Conveying India to the Pamir and further away
- While relatively early we see that some of the prominent Indian gods and \(\textit {diis minores}\) are current interlocutors of the Buddha, at some point epic‘s characters are introduced in Buddhist narrative and become even "divinized/deified" figures, some of them as mere name, other with a subtle reference to their original and specific physiognomy if not pedigree. On their part, the lords of land essentials in regulating social order were possibly the first agents with whom the Buddhists entered mundane transactions with the hosting society for the sake of installing the institution. And the success of the enterprise was depending upon the subtle "coalescence" of their respective common law and/or juridical system. The hierarchy of the various divinities attested in epigraphy and in secular documents while in a way indicates the degree of reciprocal permeability of the Buddhist institution and the outer society, equally informs the historian about the possible itineraries taken by texts and their conveyors.
| Author: | Cristina Scherrer-SchaubGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-62985 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.13154/rub.br.119.104 |
| ISSN: | 2628-2356 |
| Parent Title (English): | Ancient central Asian networks : rethinking the interplay of religions, art and politics across the Tarim Basin (5th-10th c.) |
| Subtitle (English): | on divine hierarchy and political paradigms in Buddhist texts |
| Series (Serial Number): | BuddhistRoad Paper (6.1,S5) |
| Editor: | Erika Forte |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/02/22 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2019/02/15 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Pagenumber: | 42 |
| Note: | BuddhistRoad, Project ID: 725519 |
| Relation (DC): | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/725519 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Religion / Religion, Religionsphilosophie |
| OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |
