How did Buddhism spread? The forgotten Greek, nomadic rulers

#ThinkingMedieval
Buddhism spread through centuries of migration, cultural churn, and religio-political innovation. Anirudh Kanisetti explains how its expansion challenges our notion that ancient India was the centre of the world.

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Bernard, Paul, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Georges Rougemont. "Deux nouvelles inscriptions grecques de l'Asie centrale." Journal des savants 2, no. 1 (2004): 227-356.
Neelis, Jason. Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks: Mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia. Brill, 2010.
Pollock, Sheldon. The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India. Univ of California Press, 2006.



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