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This paper attempts to link the archaeological and epigraphic evidence of nāga veneration in South Asia (Mathurā, Ajaṇṭā) with the textual sources about nāgas and their veneration from the Chinese Buddhist travelogues (Faxian, Xuanzang). As a specific case study, the information about the nāga Dadhikarṇa attested in Mathurā is compared with Faxian’s description of the cult of the nāga ‘White-Ear’ in Sāṅkāśya and other texts referring to rituals or festivals dedicated to nāgas.
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This article traces the history of the Abhayagiri-vihāra in Sri Lanka through the available sources. It attempts to reconstruct parts of the “lost” history of the Mahāvihāra’s rival monastery in the vaṃsa literature of the latter, but also reexamines the Chinese sources about the two main monasteries of the island and the traces of Tantric Buddhism from the Abhayagiri-vihāra in order to sketch a more multifaceted history of the monastery and its rivalry with the Mahāvihāra than has been undertaken to date with an overreliance on the Pāli sources.
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