| Titel: | Studies in Sino-Indian Interactions |
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| Autor: | Mair, VH |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of Asian History |
| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Band: | 38 |
| Heft: | 2 |
| Seiten: | 81-96 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Abstract: | Comments on several studies on Sino-Indian interactions from the fifth century to the eighth century in terms of religious practice, translation and diplomacy. Contact between the ancestors of the Chinese and speakers of Indo-Iranians; Short series of documented or instances of pre-Buddhist Sino-Indian contact and exchange; Indian ideas and practices in China; Presence of Indian shells and silk in China; Association with Indian ideas and practices with yoga; Borrowing of specific terms from Sanskrit into Sinitic. |