Spread of Buddhism in Asia: Through war or conversion?

#Thinkingmedieval

The historical Buddha might not have recognised the “Buddhism” being practised in the northwest of the subcontinent in the 1st-2nd century CE. Anirudh Kanisetti explains that it was really from this highly diverse region of Gandhara that Buddhism, or to be precise Gandharan—not “Indian”— Buddhism, embarked on its global conquest.

Sources:
Brancaccio, Pia, and Kurt A. Behrendt (eds). Gandhāran Buddhism: archaeology, art, texts. UBC Press, 2006.
Neelis, Jason. Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks: Mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia. Brill, 2010.
Salomon, Richard. "The Inscription of Senavarma, King of Oi." Indo-Iranian Journal 29, no. 4 (1986): 261-293.
Salomon, Richard. "Gāndhārī in the worlds of India, Iran, and Central Asia." Bulletin of the Asia Institute 21 (2007): 179-192.

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