Acknowledgements ............................................... ix
Introduction: The Spread of Buddhism ............................ 1
Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher
The First Turning of the Wheel of the Doctrine-
Sarvāstivāda and Māhāsaṃghika Controversy ...................... 15
Bart Dessein
Buddhism in Gandhāra ........................................... 49
Siglinde Dietz
The Spread of Buddhism in Serindia - Buddhism among
Iranians, Tocharians and Turks before the 13th century ......... 75
Xavier Tremblay
Greece, the Final Frontier?—The Westward Spread of Buddhism ... 131
Erik Seldeslaghts
Vinaya: from India to China ................................... 167
Ann Heirman
Early Buddhism in China: Daoist Reactions ..................... 203
Stephan Peter Bumbacher
Tantric Threads between India and China ....................... 247
Martin Lehnert
The Accounts of Milbon, Hyet'ong and Myŏngnang in the
Samguk yusa ................................................... 277
Pol Vanden Broucke, edited by Sem Vermeersch The Buddhist
Way into Tibet ................................................ 303
Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
The Later Spread of Buddhism in Tibet ......................... 341
Sven Bretfeld
The History of Buddhism among the Mongols ..................... 379
Klaus Sagaster
The Spread of Chan (Zen) Buddhism ............................. 433
T. Griffith Foulk
Index of Names ................................................ 457
Index of Places ............................................... 465
Index of Titles ............................................... 471
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