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The navigation skills of monsoon sailing brought unprecedented interactions of ideas, cultures, and horizons across Buddhist Asia in the mediaeval period. The interconnected seaways from the Bay of Bengal through the South China Sea to the Sea of Japan underpin a variegated intellectual framework of political, artistic, architectural, and religious thought and practice that drew in travelling monks from disparate locales to take Buddhism beyond the monastic cloisters of the Indian subcontinent. The geographical pivot of this mobile network was the southeastern corner of Asia, with its flatlands and massifs, rivers and volcanoes, coasts and islands. What had been regarded by an early generation of colonial and post-colonial scholars as the peripheral or transit zone between the ancient cultural powerhouses of the regions roughly coinciding with the nation-states of ‘India’ and ‘China’, became in the 8th to the 14th centuries a flourishing centre of innovation and creativity in ritual, architecture, and iconography.
Price: $109.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: East and West
Publication Date:
15 October 2026
ISBN: 9789004758681
Format: Hardcover
Andrea Acri (Ph.D. Leiden University) is Associate Professor of Tantric Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, PSL University) in Paris. His research focuses on Śaiva and Buddhist tantric traditions in South and Southeast Asia, examining textual and artistic remains, their circulation along the maritime routes, and how they have been adapted in local contexts. He is Principal Investigator of the ERC project MANTRATANTRAM (2024–2029).
Peter D. Sharrock (BA Cantab, PhD SOAS) is the board member of the SOAS-Alphawood Group directing relations with Regional Partners, Summer Programmes, Publications and Alumni Liaison. He researches the art history of the Angkorian Khmer Empire and Vietnam to uncover the paradigm shift effected by Buddhists in the early states of Maritime Asia from the 9th to the 14th century.
Peter D. Sharrock (BA Cantab, PhD SOAS) is the board member of the SOAS-Alphawood Group directing relations with Regional Partners, Summer Programmes, Publications and Alumni Liaison. He researches the art history of the Angkorian Khmer Empire and Vietnam to uncover the paradigm shift effected by Buddhists in the early states of Maritime Asia from the 9th to the 14th century.