From Indra's Net to Internet : : Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas /

From Indra's Net to Internet : : Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas / / Daniel Veidlinger; ed. by Mark Michael Rowe.

In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the mid-first millennium BCE. He uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent evolution t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Veidlinger, Daniel,
HerausgeberIn:
Rowe, Mark Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Buddhism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Media Theory and the Study of Buddhism
  • CHAPTER TWO. Wheeling and Dealing: Transportation, Communication, and Axial Age Religion
  • CHAPTER THREE. Discourse and the Buddha: Trade, Urbanization, and Communication in Ancient India
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Information Superhighway of Old: Buddhism along the Silk Road
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Electrifying Indra's Net: How the Internet Shapes the Reception of Buddhist Ideas
  • CHAPTER SIX. Self, Selfies, and Selflessness in Cyberspace
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Thus Have I Clicked: Quantitative Data and Survey Results for Buddhism Online
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Conclusion: Computer-Mediated Communication and the Future of Buddhist Ideas
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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