Material Networks: Buddhist Ritual Daggers on Medieval Silk Roads

Megan Bryson, Associate Professor and Associate Head of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, examines how medieval transmission networks affected the use of Buddhist ritual daggers along the Silk Roads. Eric Huntington, T.T. and W.F. Chao Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University, acts as moderator.
This lecture is part of the "Transnationality and the Silk Roads" webinar series co-hosted by the Dunhuang Foundation and Rice University's Department of Transnational Asian Studies. Special thanks to Professors Shih-shan Susan Huang and Eric Huntington of Rice University for programming this series.
Recorded on October 27, 2022.