09 Jan 2002

Buddhism On The Silk Road
International Dunhuang Project, Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, London, UK.
Self-description: "The civilizations which flourished along the Silk Road in the first millennium CE were open to cultural and religious influences from both East and West. Many religions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, gained new followers. But it was Buddhism, travelling the trade routes of the Silk Road, which became the common factor uniting the different peoples of the Silk Road. "
Site contents: Buddhism in India and Central Asia; The Buddhism of the Kushana Empire; The Buddhism of Khotan [incl. a map]; Chinese Buddhism on the Silk Road; Tibetan Buddhism on the Silk Road [incl. a map]; Other Followers of Buddhism (The Kucheans, The Sogdians, The Uighurs, The Tanguts); Buddhist Pilgrims and Travellers; Glossary; A Note on Diacritics; Site Information; Further Reading; The International Dunhuang Project.
[The site (est. Oct 2001), illustrated with detailed maps and timelines, is edited by Sam van Schaik and aims at a general audience. It forms a part of the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) (idp.bl.uk). All images are from The British Library collection, or from the photographs of Aurel Stein. The site offers Information on access to Dunhuang manuscripts (idp.bl.uk/idp.html) and to the IDP interactive web database (idp.bl.uk/idp/idpdatabase.html) - ed.]
URL http://idp.bl.uk/idp/buddhism/index.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Susan Whitfield (susan.whitfield@popmail.bl.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
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