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The Silk Road and the ‘Cotton Road’: Buddhist Art and Practice Between Central Asia and the Western Deccan.” In The World of the Ancient Silk Road edited by Xinru Liu with Pia Brancaccio. New York-London: Routledge, 2023

Brancaccio Pia
2022-01-01
2022
Inglese
Xinru Liu, Pia Brancaccio
Xinru, Liu con la collaborazione di Pia Brancaccio
The World of the Ancient Silk Road
378
388
11
9780367199968
Routledge
Abingdon New York
STATI UNITI D'AMERICA
Esperti anonimi
Silk Road, Cotton Road, Western Deccan, Buddhist Caves
The paper explores how Buddhism and its art tied together two major international exchange systems in antiquity: the Silk Road and the “Cotton Road”. As much as the growth of Buddhism on the Silk Road went hand in hand with the development of silk trade, the flourishing of Buddhism in the Western Deccan (modern region of Maharashtra in India) was closely tied to the production and international trade of cotton textiles – in essence we are looking at an exchange system that could well be referred to as the “Cotton Road”. Between the 5th and the 7th centuries, both the Gansu corridor and the Western Deccan expe rienced an unparalleled fl ourishing of Buddhism and rock-cut architecture. The goal of the present paper is to show that a direct channel of communication existed across the Buddhist world between sites along the Silk Road and the Western Deccan. The movement of monastic and lay members of the Buddhist community who acted as agents of cultural mediation facilitated the exchange of ideas among distant regions where the phenomenon of Buddhist rock-cut architecture had become so central.
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Brancaccio, Pia
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