"In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield expands her trailblazing exploration of the Silk Road and broadens her rich and varied portrait of life along the great premodern trade routes …
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this m…
Relics: the heart of Buddhist veneration / Peter Skilling -- Cetiya and Thūpa: the textual sources / Lance Cousins -- The Buddhist remains of Passani and Bimaran and related relic deposits from…
Manuscripts and inscriptions, languages and letters --rnLanguage and writing in South-East Asia and in Sukhothai --rnPieces in the puzzle : Sanskrit literature in pre-modern Siam --rnThe place of S…
Numerous Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished in Southeast Asia from the 5th to the 9th century, yet until recently few concrete details were known about them. 'Lost Kingdoms' reveals newly disco…
Introduction: Charnvit Kasetsiri’s “Yellow Brick Road” / Barbara Watson Andaya – Part I: Thai and Southeast Asian Studies – Part II: From Siam to Thailand – Part III: Siam and Indone…
The book is an encyclopaedia of the Sakyan history in which Sakyamuni Gautama Buddha was born. It traces the roots of the Sakyan clan in the perspective of history, ethnography, anthropology, archa…
Originally published as: Historical dictionary of ancient Southeast Asia. 2007.rnIncludes bibliographical references (p. 451-495)
A lively and easy to read guide to Southeast Asia written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.rnThe first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 19…
The Ascendancy of Theravada Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the advent of Buddhism in Southeast Asia, especially in Thailand during the first millennium CE. The author, Prapod Assavavirulhakar…
Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth a…
This volume deals with Sri Lanka's evolution into a stronghold of Theravada Buddhism and China and Tibet's contribution to the Mahayana and Tantrayana traditions.
This Is A Comprehensive Survey Of The Buddhist Influence On Asian Culture And Civilization.