Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks 7th to 13th Centuries

Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (8th to 13th Centuries), ed. Carmen Meinert, offers a transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It explores Buddhist localisations in the Tarim basin, the Transhimalaya and Tibet.

Carmen Meinert, Dr. phil. (2001), Bonn University, is Professor of Central Asian Religions at Bochum University. She has published on Buddhism in Central Asia, on Tibetan-Chinese relations, and monographs includingBuddha in the Yurt — Buddhist Art from Mongolia (Hirmer, 2011). Contributors are: Kazuo Kano, Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Rob Linrothe, Linda Lojda, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sorensen, Monica Strinu, Gertraud Taenzer, Sam van Schaik, Jens Wilkens.