Beyond the Silk and Book Roads

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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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