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BEST aims to explore the historical influences of Chinese sources on the development of Tibetan Buddhism. By analyzing manuscripts from Dunhuang, the project seeks to uncover the complex interactions between Tibetan and Chinese cultures during the transmission of Buddhism.
Modern scholarship follows emic accounts in situating the origins of Tibetan Buddhism squarely in India, tacitly accepting Tibets claim to be heir to the orthodox tradi-tion.
This oversimplifies the complex history of Buddhisms two transmissions to Tibet, in the 7th and 11th centuries, elid-ing the formative early contributions of Sinitic sources, principally imparted from the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang, a crucial locus of interaction between Tibetan and Chinese cultures in the 8th-11th centuri…
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