Buddhism is also the religion lived by the sangha (monks and nuns—representing ... as the new faith spread out from South Asia to Southeast Asia, China, and beyond. Within South Asia it was centered ...

This essay looks at the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and how religious belief and expression fit with extant and modern polictical and economic infrastructures. It is difficult to determine ...

Volume 1 charts Southeast Asia's beginnings, from prehistory to c ... and the period's economic history, religions and popular beliefs. "...a volume that conveys, in a powerfully provocative manner, ...

Instead, he argued that it was India's exchange of ideas, religion, and culture that transformed Southeast Asia. This wasn't about military domination or imperial control but about intellectual ...