caves-in-western-deccan_brancaccio-pia.md

title	authors	external_url	drive_links	course	tags	year	journal	volume	number	pages
The Buddhist Caves in Western Deccan, India, between the Fifth and Sixth Centuries	Pia Brancaccio	https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hualin1.2_brancaccio.pdf	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KTtgpi7-yTKJAKjM7nQsspD0esHnRlUq/view?usp=sharing	medieval	mahayana-roots avalokitesvara deccan	2018	hijbs	1	2	1--13

… scholarship has always interpreted the resurgence of Buddhist activity at Ajanta and neighboring sites as a regional phenomenon linked to the prestige of a dominating group and to internal political strives. Yet at a closer look, it appears that much like in earlier times, the life of these rock-cut sites in the fifth century continued to be closely related to a network of commercial activities

Buddhists, and the worshippers of Avalokitesvara in particular, spread along Indian Ocean and Central Asian trade routes during the early medieval period, returning wealth and dynamism to the Buddhist communities of India.