The Buddha's footprint : an environmental history of Asia / Johan Elverskog
Language: Series: Encounters with AsiaPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.Description: xiii, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780812251838 (hbk.)
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Includes index.
Preface --
Introduction --
Part I. What the Buddha taught. --
1. The Buddha --
2, Buddhism(s) --
3, Buddhists --
4, Wealth --
5, Consumption --
Part II. What Buddhists did. --
6. The spread of Buddhism --
7. The commodity frontier --
8. Agricultural expansion --
9. Urbanization --
10. The Buddhist landscape --
Conclusion --
Notes --
Index --
Acknowledgments
The Buddha's Footprint demonstrates how the spread of Buddhist teachings, the extension of Buddhist trading networks, and the increase of Buddhist state power were intimately connected to agricultural expansion, resource extraction, deforestation, urbanization, and the radical transformation and exploitation of Asia's environment.
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