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<p>The interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries) edited by Carmen Meinert offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It looks at the region as an integrated (religious) whole rather than from the perspective of fragmented subdisciplines and analyses the spread of Buddhism as a driving force in a societal and cultural change of panAsian importance. One particular dimension of this ‘Buddhist globalisation’ was the rise of local forms of Buddhism. This volume explores Buddhist localisations through manuscripts and material culture in the multiethnic oases of the Tarim basin the Transhimalyan region of Zangskar Ladakh and Kashmir and the Western Tibetan Kingdom of PurangGuge. About the Author Carmen Meinert D.Phil. (2001) Bonn University is Professor of Central Asian Religions at Bochum University. She has published on Buddhism in Central Asia on TibetanChinese relations and monographs including Buddha in the Yurt – Buddhist Art from Mongolia (Hirmer 2011).</p>
