MMW 12 Chapter Article Notes: Trade-Buddhism: Maritime Trade, Immigration, and the Buddhist Landfall in Early Japan
7 Mar 2017
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Mmw 12 article notes trade-buddhism: maritime trade, immigration, and the. Introduction: self-sufficient agricultural villages ruled by ritual-bound central elite, buddhism"s transmission to japan went by unnoticed and sometimes illegal through commercial activity and migration. The indianization" of southeast asia: use of sanskrit as official language for celebratory public inscriptions. Indianized island dominated trade for centuries, starting in 670. Indianized city of champa in what is now central vietnam: dressed like buddhist images, rode elephants like indians. Early japan"s southward tilt: no grottos, kingdom of paekche responsible for the transmission of buddhism to japan, as well as other aspects of chinese culture. The buddhist community of early japan: coins not introduced until 708, difficult to send ships between china and japan, monks hesitant to make the journey there. Isolate buddhists in monasteries: recite sutras for protecting the state, no popular disturbance, buddhist practice outside of monasteries forbidden by law, buddhism and trade flourished together.
