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Beyond the Silk and Book Roads
Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture
Series: - Studies on East Asian Religions, Volume: 11
Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a âbook,â and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Featuring new research in English by international scholars in Buddhist studies, art history, and literary studies, the essays in Beyond the Silk and Book Roads chart new and exciting directions in Silk Road studies.
Contributors are: Ge Jiyong, George A. Keyworth, Ding Li, Ryan Richard Overbey, Hao Chunwen, Wu Shaowei, Liu Yi, Lan Wu, Sha Wutian, Michelle C. Wang, and Stephen Roddy.
Contributors are: Ge Jiyong, George A. Keyworth, Ding Li, Ryan Richard Overbey, Hao Chunwen, Wu Shaowei, Liu Yi, Lan Wu, Sha Wutian, Michelle C. Wang, and Stephen Roddy.
Michelle C. Wang is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Georgetown University. A specialist in the Buddhist and silk road art of northwestern China, she has published on maá¹á¸alas, art and ritual, miracle tales, and text and image.
Ryan Richard Overbey serves as the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Skidmore College and studies the intellectual and ritual history of Buddhism, with particular focus on early medieval Buddhist spells and ritual manuals.
Ryan Richard Overbey serves as the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Skidmore College and studies the intellectual and ritual history of Buddhism, with particular focus on early medieval Buddhist spells and ritual manuals.
"(...) the articles in this beautifully illustrated book show that knowledge and materiality were closely intertwined in the movement of books and paintings across premodern Eurasia. Scholars will need to emulate contributors of this book in combining philological, historical, and art historical approaches if they intend to explore the full richness of the movements of things and ideas on the Silk/Book Road."
Xin Wen, Princeton University, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 10, no. 1 (2025): 259-262. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mns.2025.a965567.
"This book represents a groundbreaking effort to reimagine the networks of exchange and material culture that have shaped human interactions across regions and civilizations. Through a collection of diverse research manuscripts contributed by leading scholars in the field, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate web of connections that transcended the traditional Silk Road and the transmission of texts along the Book Road." - Religious Studies Review (50/2 2024)
Xin Wen, Princeton University, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 10, no. 1 (2025): 259-262. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mns.2025.a965567.
"This book represents a groundbreaking effort to reimagine the networks of exchange and material culture that have shaped human interactions across regions and civilizations. Through a collection of diverse research manuscripts contributed by leading scholars in the field, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate web of connections that transcended the traditional Silk Road and the transmission of texts along the Book Road." - Religious Studies Review (50/2 2024)
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âRyan Richard Overbey and Michelle C. Wang
1 Chinese Bamboo Slips Unearthed Abroad and the Book Road in East Asia: On the Bamboo Slips of the Analects
âGe Jiyong èç¹¼å
2 Vowing the Buddhist Canon along the Silk Road(s): A Study of Colophons to Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Japan
âGeorge A. Keyworth
3 The Transmission of Medieval Chinese Paintings to Japan: Paintings on the âBook Roadâ and Their Reception
âDing Li ä¸è
4 A GandhÄran among the Türks: Buddhist Texts and Travels in the Biographies of *DhyÄnagupta (528â605)
âRyan Richard Overbey
5 The Circulation of Texts between Dunhuang and Other Regions as Viewed from the Dunhuang Manuscripts
âHao Chunwen éæ¥æ and Wu Shaowei æ¦ç´¹è¡
6 The Khotanese and Tibetan Transmission of the Narrative of the Destruction of the Dharma in the Kingdom of KauÅÄmbÄ« II: Discussion
âLiu Yi åå±¹
7 An Epistolary Buddhist Network between Lhasa and Beijing in the 1740s
âLan Wu çè
8 Images of Silk along the Silk Roads: Dunhuang Mural Paintings and Tang Funerary Figurines
âSha Wutian æ²æ¦ç°
9 Birds of a Feather: MahÄmÄyÅ«rÄ« between Khotan and Dunhuang
âMichelle C. Wang
10 White Silk, Gold Thread, Frosted Temples, and Fat Faces: The Radiating Branches of Zhuzhici, ca. 1700â1900
âStephen Roddy
Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âRyan Richard Overbey and Michelle C. Wang
part 1: Textual Production and Circulation
1 Chinese Bamboo Slips Unearthed Abroad and the Book Road in East Asia: On the Bamboo Slips of the Analects
âGe Jiyong èç¹¼å
2 Vowing the Buddhist Canon along the Silk Road(s): A Study of Colophons to Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Japan
âGeorge A. Keyworth
3 The Transmission of Medieval Chinese Paintings to Japan: Paintings on the âBook Roadâ and Their Reception
âDing Li ä¸è
4 A GandhÄran among the Türks: Buddhist Texts and Travels in the Biographies of *DhyÄnagupta (528â605)
âRyan Richard Overbey
5 The Circulation of Texts between Dunhuang and Other Regions as Viewed from the Dunhuang Manuscripts
âHao Chunwen éæ¥æ and Wu Shaowei æ¦ç´¹è¡
part 2: Centers and Peripheries
6 The Khotanese and Tibetan Transmission of the Narrative of the Destruction of the Dharma in the Kingdom of KauÅÄmbÄ« II: Discussion
âLiu Yi åå±¹
7 An Epistolary Buddhist Network between Lhasa and Beijing in the 1740s
âLan Wu çè
8 Images of Silk along the Silk Roads: Dunhuang Mural Paintings and Tang Funerary Figurines
âSha Wutian æ²æ¦ç°
9 Birds of a Feather: MahÄmÄyÅ«rÄ« between Khotan and Dunhuang
âMichelle C. Wang
10 White Silk, Gold Thread, Frosted Temples, and Fat Faces: The Radiating Branches of Zhuzhici, ca. 1700â1900
âStephen Roddy
Index
Scholars and students of Silk Road studies, manuscript studies, Buddhist studies, Buddhist art.