pali-cosmopolis_frasch-tilman.md

title	editor	authors	drive_links	file_links	course	tags	year	from_book	publisher	chapter	pages
A Pāli Cosmopolis: Sri Lanka and the Theravāda Buddhist ecumene c. 500–1500	Zoltán Biedermann and Alan Strathern	Tilman Frasch	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUlLEe-cstTA7QtVFgyj8P-Q_6m07Ge4/view?usp=drivesdk	exclusive_01/Sri%20Lanka%20and%20the%20Theravada%20Buddhist%20ecumene%20c.%20500%E2%80%931500.pdf	roots	theravada indian-ocean	2017	sri-lanka-crossroads_ucl	ucl	3	66--76

Lanka’s pre-eminence was not a given, as by the early thirteenth century, the religious and intellectual centre began to shift towards Bagan in Myanmar. But the sudden decline of Bagan after the Mongol conquest at the end of the thirteenth century prevented the completion of Theravāda’s ‘great translocation’ to Southeast Asia.

… an outline of the Pāli cosmopolis during the second millennium of the Buddhist Era