Spread of Ideas

Themes cross cultural interactions modes of exhange social: political: religious: economic: biological: gateways: spread of ideas: Confucianism Hellenistic thought Buddhism Christianity

Silk Road see also Silk Road map; and spread of religions map

Spread of Christianity

• (finish end of previous lecture)
• diversity
  • center: Palestine, Roman Empire
  • heterodoxy: gnosticism, monophysites, dyophysites (Nestorians), Arians, Manichees
  • southward: Egypt, Ethiopia, Nubia, South Arabia
  • eastward: Syria, Tang China
  • westward: Celts
• Christianity and Empire: creation of orthodoxy
  • contexts and influences:
    
    
  • adaptation:
    
    
  • accommodation and hegemony
    • Constantine, battle of Milvian Bridge 312
      
      
    • Council of Nicea (325) and Nicene Creed
      
      
    • Theodosius, 395
      
      
    • Altar of Victory, Symmachus and Ambrose
      
      
    • Hypatia
      
      
  • Augustine, City of God and City of Man
    
    
• heterodoxy survives
  • Syrian
    
    
  • Coptic
    
    
  • Ethiopian (more pictures)
    
    
  • Nubia
    
    
  • South Arabia: martyrs of Najran
    
    
• frontiers east and west
  • Tang China (text)
    
    
  • Celtic Christianity
    
    

Spread of Buddhism

• migration paths:
  • northern: Central Asia, East Asia
    
    
  • southern: Southeast Asia
    
    
• Buddhism in China:
  • Daoism and Confucianism
    
    
  • schools: doctrinal, practical, meditation
    
    
  • T'ien-t'ai (Lotus School) 6th cen; Hua-yen (Flower Garland School) 6th-7th cen.
    
    
  • Pure Land (Buddha Amitabha)
    
    
  • Ch'an (Zen)
    
    
• images of the Buddha
  
  
  
• John Young Museum, Krauss Hall, UHM

Comparisons

• diversity
  
  
• religion and culture