Amid the Ruins of the Silk Road - Roy, Dhriti
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Amid the Ruins of the Silk Road: In Search of the Long-Lost Footprints of Śākyaputra Faxian is an insightful piece of original scholarship under the genre of intellectual and religious history. The volume attempts to shed new light upon the evolutionary phases of Chinese Buddhist monasticism, with special focus upon the state of Buddhist monastic disciplinary codes (vinaya) in premodern China by navigating through unexplored domains of cross-civilizational interactions, as has been intricately portrayed in the fascicles of Śākyaputra Faxian's most celebrated fifth century travel memoir, Fo Guo…mehr

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Amid the Ruins of the Silk Road: In Search of the Long-Lost Footprints of Śākyaputra Faxian is an insightful piece of original scholarship under the genre of intellectual and religious history. The volume attempts to shed new light upon the evolutionary phases of Chinese Buddhist monasticism, with special focus upon the state of Buddhist monastic disciplinary codes (vinaya) in premodern China by navigating through unexplored domains of cross-civilizational interactions, as has been intricately portrayed in the fascicles of Śākyaputra Faxian's most celebrated fifth century travel memoir, Fo Guo Ji. The book offers a critical inquiry into the chain of events which not only defined the final contours of Chinese Buddhist monastic tradition, but also proved to have been instrumental in shaping Chinese Buddhism into its region-specific Sinified mould. This seminal academic work, by drawing upon primary source documents from Buddhist and secular literature, brings to the fore, the significance of the historic trans-continental Silk Road as a crucial interface, having stood witness through the vicissitudes of time, to some of the most unprecedented of cultural, intellectual and philosophical borrowings across variegated socio-cultural spaces.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Dhriti Roy is Associate Professor and Head at the Department of Chinese, School of Languages and Literature, Sikkim University (Central University), Gangtok, Sikkim, India. Roy received her Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Chinese Language and Studies from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. She was an Advanced Language Student at Beijing Normal University and a Senior Visiting Scholar at Peking University, China. Roy received specialized training in Classical Chinese, Sinological Studies, Buddhist Studies and Manuscriptology, alongside modern Mandarin, Japanese and Tibetan languages. With almost over twenty years of research experience in the field of Sinology, she has authored over forty research papers in refereed journals and numerous book chapters in edited volumes, including in Routledge volumes. Alongside teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, Dr. Roy also supervises doctoral research at Sikkim University.