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

by Daniel Veidlinger

Book Overview

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 to show how Buddhism arose in the largely urban milieu of Axial Age northeastern India and spread rapidly along the transportation and trading nodes of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824892399
• ISBN13: 9780824892395
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"