From Indra's net to Internet : communication, technology, and the evolution of Buddhist ideas /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Contemporary Buddhism.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; Media Theory and the Study of Buddhism; 2; Wheeling and Dealing; Transportation, Communication, and Axial Age Religion; 3; Discourse and the Buddha; Trade, Urbanization, and Communication in Ancient India; 4; The Information Superhighway of Old; Buddhism along the Silk Road; 5; Electrifying Indra's Net; How the Internet Shapes the Reception of Buddhist Ideas; 6; Self, Selfies, and Selflessness in Cyberspace; 7; Thus Have I Clicked; Quantitative Data and Survey Results for Buddhism Online; 8; Conclusion.
- Computer-Mediated Communication and the Future of Buddhist IdeasNotes; References; Index; About the Author; Blank Page.
