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Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a “book,” and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Featuring new research in English by international scholars in Buddhist studies, art history, and literary studies, the essays in Beyond the Silk and Book Roads chart new and exciting directions in Silk Road studies. Contributors are: Ge Jiyong, George A. Keyworth, Ding Li, Ryan Richard Overbey, Hao Chunwen, Wu Shaowei, Liu Yi, Lan Wu, Sha Wutian, Michelle C. Wang, and Stephen Roddy.

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Author:   Michelle C. Wang ,  Ryan Richard Overbey
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   11
Weight:   0.918kg
ISBN:  

9789004685550

ISBN 10:   9004685553
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   29 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Ryan Richard Overbey and Michelle C. Wang part 1: Textual Production and Circulation 1 Chinese Bamboo Slips Unearthed Abroad and the Book Road in East Asia: On the Bamboo Slips of the Analects  Ge Jiyong 葛繼勇 2 Vowing the Buddhist Canon along the Silk Road(s): A Study of Colophons to Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Japan  George A. Keyworth 3 The Transmission of Medieval Chinese Paintings to Japan: Paintings on the “Book Road” and Their Reception  Ding Li 丁莉 4 A Gandhāran among the Türks: Buddhist Texts and Travels in the Biographies of *Dhyānagupta (528–605)  Ryan Richard Overbey 5 The Circulation of Texts between Dunhuang and Other Regions as Viewed from the Dunhuang Manuscripts  Hao Chunwen 郝春文 and Wu Shaowei 武紹衛 part 2: Centers and Peripheries 6 The Khotanese and Tibetan Transmission of the Narrative of the Destruction of the Dharma in the Kingdom of Kauśāmbī II: Discussion  Liu Yi 劉屹 7 An Epistolary Buddhist Network between Lhasa and Beijing in the 1740s  Lan Wu 烏蘭 8 Images of Silk along the Silk Roads: Dunhuang Mural Paintings and Tang Funerary Figurines  Sha Wutian 沙武田 9 Birds of a Feather: Mahāmāyūrī between Khotan and Dunhuang  Michelle C. Wang 10 White Silk, Gold Thread, Frosted Temples, and Fat Faces: The Radiating Branches of Zhuzhici, ca. 1700–1900  Stephen Roddy Index

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Michelle C. Wang is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Georgetown University. A specialist in the Buddhist and silk road art of northwestern China, she has published on maṇḍalas, art and ritual, miracle tales, and text and image. Ryan Richard Overbey serves as the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Skidmore College and studies the intellectual and ritual history of Buddhism, with particular focus on early medieval Buddhist spells and ritual manuals.

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