Published 2011
“…Ching.Buddha images of Amaravati style pertaining to early centuries of
Common Era have been found from Dong-duong near Danang in central Vietnam.An inscription of the same region describes the installation of a Buddha image in 875 C.E. and construction of a Buddhist temple and monastery by Indravarman II.In the present article, an attempt has been made to delineate Buddhist contacts between India and Vietnam.The article would contest the Indic centric view that there was total transplantation of Indian Buddhism.The theoretical premise would be that the whole process of Indian cultural influence was interaction between culture of India and Vietnam.It was the genius of Vietnamese, which choose those elements of an external culture that were either consistent with or could be moulded to its own beliefs.…”
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