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The volume surveys the spread of Indian religious and cultural influence across eastern Asia and the island archipelagos, tracing how Buddhism and related traditions were transmitted, adapted, and institutionalized in regions such as Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, Champa, Java, Central Asia, China, Korea, Annam, Tibet, and Japan. It considers artistic, architectural, linguistic, and canonical borrowings alongside doctrinal developments, and pays particular attention to Chinese and Tibetan transformations by treating their histories, canons, schools, and contemporary conditions in separate chapters. The closing section turns to mutual influences between East and West, discussing Christian missions in India and wider Indian, Persian, and Mohammedan interactions.
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