Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c9.12

v2.c9.12

| PREFACE | xiii |
| CREDITS | xiv |
| **SECTION I** | |
| **INDIA-CHINA CULTURAL EXCHANGES** | **1** |
| Timeline of Chinese Dynasties and Other | |
| Key Events | 2 |
| General Introduction | 3 |
| **SECTION II** | |
| **COMMERCIAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN** | |
| **INDIA & CHINA** | **19** |
| Overview | 22 |
| **A. Products** | **30** |
| Bodhi Tree | 30 |
| Sala Tree | 31 |
| Asoka Tree | 32 |
| Clover | 32 |
| Cucumber | 33 |
| Pepper | 34 |
| Bhallataka | 35 |
| Cotton | 36 |
| Saffron | 38 |
| Zebu | 39 |
| Porcelain | 40 |
| Silk | 40 |
| Embroidery | 41 |
| Cat’s Eye | 42 |
| Fine Cloth | 43 |
| **B. Early Modern Era** | **43** |
| Opium Trade | 43 |
| India-China Cotton Yarn Trade | 45 |
| Abdoolally Ebrahim & Co. | 46 |
| E D Sassoon & Co | 46 |
| Parsis | 47 |
| Shikarpuri Financiers | 48 |
| Ismaili Traders | 48 |
| The Tatas | 49 |
| The Harilelas | 50 |
| Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy | 50 |
| K R Cama | 51 |
| H N Mody | 51 |
| Paul Chater | 52 |
| Ellis and Elly Kadoorie | 52 |
| **SECTION III** | |
| **SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY** | **55** |
| Overview | 58 |
| **A. Mathematics and Astronomy** | **71** |
| Ancient Indian Mathematics and Astronomy | 71 |
| *Terms, Items* | *75* |
| Zero | 75 |
| Portraits of Constellation Gods | 75 |
| *Personalities* | *76* |
| Zhen Luan | 76 |
| Yixing | 77 |
| Dharmacandra | 78 |
| Kasyapa | 79 |
| Gautama Siddhartha | 80 |
| Kumara | 80 |
| *Works* | *80* |
| Kai Yuan Zhan Jing | 80 |
| Jiuzhi Calendar | 81 |
| Sardulakarnavadana | 82 |
| Sardulakarnavadana, Pictures of Constellations | 83 |
| Prince Shetoujian’s Twenty-Eight Constellations Scripture | 84 |
| Constellation Scripture | 84 |
| Brahman Siddhanta | 87 |
| **B. Medical Sciences** | **88** |
| Cikitsāvidyā | 88 |
| Indian Medical Science and its Transmission to China | 89 |
| *Personalities* | *93* |
| Ge Hong | 93 |
| Tao Hongjing | 93 |
| Sun Simiao | 94 |
| Wang Tao | 96 |
| Li Shizhen | 96 |
| George Hatem | 97 |
| Tang Youzhi | 98 |
| Nagarjuna - the Physician | 99 |
| Buddhacinga | 99 |
| Jīva | 100 |
| Buddhasena | 101 |
| Jīva Jivaka | 101 |
| *Works* | *102* |
| Valuable Prescriptions for Emergency | 102 |
| Supplement to Valuable Prescriptions | 103 |
| Arcane Essentials from the Imperial Library | 104 |
| Bodhisattva Nagarjuna’s Treatise on Ophthalmology | 105 |
| Sutra of Buddhist Medicine | 106 |
| Bower Manuscript | 107 |
| Siddhasàra | 108 |
| Jivaka Pustaka | 109 |
| Essentials of Prescriptions by Various Medical Scientists | 110 |
| **C. Technological Exchanges** | **111** |
| Qi Min Yao Shu | 111 |
| Sugar Making | 111 |
| Tea Cultivation | 112 |
| Zhu Kezhen | 113 |
| **SECTION IV** | |
| **EXCHANGES BASED ON BUDDHISM** | **115** |
| Overview | 118 |
| **A. Sects** | **132** |
| Chinese Buddhism | 132 |
| Tiantai School | 136 |
| Faxiang School | 139 |