Summary:

This map depicts the diaspora of Buddhism across Asia from 300 B.C.E. to 1000 C.E, showing how Buddhism originated in the Ganges River Valley and spread across East and Southeast Asia with the help of travelling missionaries, pilgrims, and merchants. Source: Hinnells, Handbook of Living Religions, 280; Bentley, Old World Encounters, 70–71.

 

Bibliography:

John Kieschnick, “Buddhist Vegetarianism in China”, In Of Tripod and Palate Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2015) : 186-212, Accessed October 7, 2019, https://link.springer.com.remotexs.ntu.edu.sg/chapter/10.1057/9781403979278_10

Laudan, Rachel. “Monks and Monasteries: Buddhism Transforms the Cuisine of China, 200 CE—850 CE,” Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), Ch. 3: 145-82

“Definition of 醤,ひしお”, (Nihongomaster), Accessed October 7, 2019, https://www.nihongomaster.com/dictionary/entry/148856/hishio