Is Zhongguo the Middle Kingdom or Madhyadeśa?

Autor: Cheng, Anne
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Popis: The quest for the original texts supposedly related to Buddhist teachings is assumed to be the chief motivation for Chinese monks to take the long and perilous pilgrimage to the land of origin of their faith in the early centuries of the first millennium. Among the many disputed issues to be found in these monks’ written testimonies is one that points towards what might be called shared or competing geographies (whether imagined or real) between China and India. In early Chinese Buddhist sour...
Databáze: OpenAIRE