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- Book Title
- Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
- Title
- Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
- EAN
- 9781442254725
- ISBN
- 9781442254725
- Release Date
- 09/11/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Contributor
- Prasenjit Duara (Foreword by)
- Subtitle
- The Realignment of India–China Relations, 600–1400
- ISBN-10
- 1442254726
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Subject
- Law & Politics
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade : the Realignment of India-China Relations, 600-1400
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 326 Pages
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Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries. The unfolding of this transformation, its causes, and wider ramifications are examined in this masterful analysis of the changing patterns of the interaction between the two most important cultural spheres in Asia. Tansen Sen offers a new perspective on Sino-Indian relations during the Tang dynasty (618-907), arguing that the period is notable not only for religious and diplomatic exchanges but also for the process through which China emerged as a center of Buddhist learning, practice, and pilgrimage. Before the seventh century, the Chinese clergy--given the spatial gap between the sacred Buddhist world of India and the peripheral China--suffered from a "borderland complex." A close look at the evolving practice of relic veneration in China (at Famen Monastery in particular), the exposition of Mount Wutai as an abode of the bodhisattva Ma jusri, and the propagation of the idea of Maitreya's descent in China, however, reveals that by the eighth century China had overcome its complex and successfully established a Buddhist realm within its borders. The emergence of China as a center of Buddhism had profound implications on religious interactions between the two countries and is cited by Sen as one of the main causes for the weakening of China's spiritual attraction toward India. At the same time, the growth of indigenous Chinese Buddhist schools and teachings retrenched the need for doctrinal input from India. A detailed examination of the failure of Buddhist translations produced during the Song dynasty (960-1279), demonstrates that these developments were responsible for the unraveling of religious bonds between the two countries and the termination of the Buddhist phase of Sino-Indian relations. Sen proposes that changes in religious interactions were paralleled by changes in commercial exchanges. For most of the first millennium, trading activities between India and China were closely connected with and sustained through the transmission of Buddhist doctrines. The eleventh and twelfth centuries, however, witnessed dramatic changes in the patterns and structure of mercantile activity between the two countries. Secular bulk and luxury goods replaced Buddhist ritual items, maritime channels replaced the overland Silk Road as the most profitable conduits of commercial exchange, and many of the merchants involved were followers of Islam rather than Buddhism. Moreover, policies to encourage foreign trade instituted by the Chinese government and the Indian kingdoms contributed to the intensification of commercial activity between the two countries and transformed the China-India trading circuit into a key segment of cross-continental commerce.
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1442254726
ISBN-13
9781442254725
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224111038
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade : the Realignment of India-China Relations, 600-1400
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
326 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Hf3838.I4s45 2015
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Reviews
Tansen Sen's work offers the most thorough overview to date of Sino-Indian relations in the period between the seventh and fifteenth centuries. Forcefully argued, well-documented, and clearly written, it will be of interest to scholars specializing in the history of Buddhism, Chinese and Indian military history, foreign relations of India and China, and economic history in pre-modern Asia, and will also prove helpful to world historians and scholars interested in the roots of modern relations between the two countries., Readers of Buddhism, Diplomacy and Trade will make a significant investment in learning details of Chinese and Indian diplomatic and economic history. Sen left no stone unturned when it comes to describing the nature of this trade partnership during the time period., China and India have held a trading relationship for thousands of years. Buddhism, Diplomacy and Trade: The Realignment of India-China, 600-1400 focuses on that relationship and how it evolved. The book includes a very detailed analysis of diplomatic relations between the ruling Chinese and Indian dynasties over these centuries. Early in this time period the Chinese held the Indians in high esteem and sought their teachings on Buddhism, diplomatic relations, and healing practices. What began as the migration of the religious culture of Buddhism from India to China eventually became a trade partnership over land and maritime routes.... Readers of Buddhism, Diplomacy and Trade will make a significant investment in learning details of Chinese and Indian diplomatic and economic history. Sen left no stone unturned when it comes to describing the nature of this trade partnership during the time period., Simply tracing the political interaction between the various powers that held sway in these two cultural areas during the span of time covered by Tansen Sen's book is no mean feat. But beyond the detail of events, we find here an elaborate and well-presented argument about India's decline as a source of Chinese Buddhism that is bound to have a widespread impact on both teaching and research.... The sweep of scholarship involved in this big picture is truly exhilarating, and the conclusions offered in general terms are welcome and persuasive., This is a splendid book. It has an overarching theme buttressed by immense detail. It has a central argument, one that defies and challenges a conventional view. Its scholarly appurtenances are superb, including notes, documentation, and index. It is well written and interesting. Indeed, I found it quite difficult to put down, despite its length, weight, and academic content.... It is a real tour de force of religious and diplomatic history and has put forward a new and convincing historical interpretation. It is the most thorough book on the subject of Sino-Indian relations and Buddhism in medieval China and India yet written and will certainly become the standard book on the subject. I suspect it will retain that status for quite a long time. I strongly recommend this book to all those interested in the history of Buddhism, the history of China and India, and the interrelationship among these topics., Tansen Sen's success in melding two disciplinary approaches, that of social history and the study of Buddhism, make this a seminal work in understanding the very complicated relation between the spread of religious beliefs and economic expansion. Little scholarly attention has been paid to the connections between the two great, vibrant neighboring civilizations that deeply influenced all of Asia in part because of the necessity of dealing with inaccessible texts written in very different languages, but Sen shows himself a master of a vast range of material. That it has seventy pages of bibliographic notes is an indication that Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade is a work of formidable scholarship. In showing how, in the period he is studying, the relationship between these two cultures is secularized and transformed, Sen opens up new vistas in both economic and religious history for specialists in Indian and Chinese studies and also for teachers in world history courses., Tansen Sen's book lifts Buddhist exchanges from the confines of the individual national histories of India and China and places them squarely in a broader regional context. Earlier generations of scholars who focused on the history of Buddhism in either India or China described a decline in the years after 1000, but Sen depicts a thriving Buddhist world with trade between India and China before 1000 and little after, Sen shows conclusively that the trade continued, though in the hands of Arab middlemen. His world is much more interesting as a result., This is a truly trans-national work by a brilliant young Indian scholar who was brought up in China, trained at the University of Pennsylvania, did research in Kyoto and now teaches in New York. ... The book is very readable, and Sen's arguments are easy to follow. ... It is well researched, well written and stimulating. No doubt its impact on a variety of fields in the study of East and South Asia will be felt for many years to come.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Foreword by Prasenjit Duara Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: China's Encounter and Predicament with the Indic World Chapter One: Military Concerns and Spiritual Underpinnings of Tang-India Diplomacy Chapter Two: The Emergence of China as a Central Buddhist Realm Chapter Three: The Termination of the Buddhist Phase of India-China Interactions Chapter Four: The Reconfiguration of India-China Trade and its Underlying Causes Chapter Five: The Phases and the Wider Implications of the Reconfiguration of India-China Trade Conclusion: From Buddhism to Commerce: The Realignment and Its Implications Bibliography Index About the Author
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Buddhism / History, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), International Relations / General, Commerce, Asia / India & South Asia, Asia / China
Lccn
2015-026488
Dewey Decimal
303.48/2510540902
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Religion, Business & Economics, History, Political Science
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