Colloquium Series: Indian Ocean Networks and Premodern Buddhist Technologies of Statecraft - Anne Blackburn

Event time: 
Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Luce Hall (LUCE), Room 202 See map
34 Hillhouse Ave.
New Haven, CT 06511

During the first half of the second millennium A.D., changing Indian Ocean networks drew together more tightly the locations we now know as Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand. Buddhist texts and persons traveled these sea lanes, informing the style and strategies of kings in Mon, Burmese, and Tai territories. In these processes, Lankans, and the idea of Laṅkā, played a distinctive role. This seminar explores the place of Laṅkā in Tai, Mon, and Burmese political practice during the 14th and 15th centuries.

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