From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas

(Part of the Contemporary Buddhism Series)

by Daniel Veidlinger

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In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the mid-first millennium BCE. He uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent evolution to show how Buddhism arose in the largely urban milieu of Axial Age northeastern India and spread rapidly along the transportation and trading nodes of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0824892399

ISBN13:9780824892395

Release Date:July 2021

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:284 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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