Buddhist Ideology and Propaganda in the Indic Northwest: A Study in Avadana Literature Ghent University
Proceeding from the maxim that 'nothing can be understood apart from context', this research projects seeks to do that which is rarely done in the study of Buddhist literature. It advances an ambitious methodology to establish nexus between archaeological, art-historical, epigraphic and textual sources in the Indic Northwest (eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan) around the turn of the Common Era. Focusing on a genre of Buddhist narrative termed ...