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Friday, November 28, 2025
TopicThinking Medieval

Topic: Thinking Medieval

This is how Jains came to dominate Gujarat – grand temples, ascetic monks, spectacular rituals

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Five sites in present-day Gujarat and Rajasthan came to be seen as the places where the five most popular Jain tirthankaras obtained enlightenment.

How an Odia queen became medieval Sri Lanka’s greatest politician

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Queen Sundari’s husband had infuriated the Buddhist Sangha by appropriating their properties; she had to find a way to appease them.

Dancing Shiva in Samarkand: Central Asian traders spread Hinduism, Buddhism along Silk Road

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800 years before Babur, Hindu gods were worshipped by merchant diasporas in Central Asia.

A medieval Malayan king beat Cholas at their game. Almost created a superpower

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Not all invasions went from India/Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia. The Malayan rulers of Tambralinga tried to establish an empire across the seas.

Buddhists ran sophisticated medieval hospitals in Sri Lanka—heated pool, forceps, acupuncture

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Excavation projects in Sri Lanka have come up with the ruins of medieval monastic hospitals of a scale that hasn’t yet been seen anywhere in South Asia.

Shiva, Skanda: How Hindu gods absorbed Iranian, Greek ideas

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Some of the most important gods of modern India were influenced by Central Asian elites of the Kushan Empire.

Buddhism did not spread by the sword. But the empires that helped it grow did

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Greater Gandhara—the forgotten superpower that shaped India, Central Asia and modern-day Buddhism.

India’s Buddhist nuns you don’t hear about: Landladies, loan sharks, merchants

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Voices of Buddhist women have been lost to us. But new research reveals they had brilliant commercial and religious minds, and shaped the financial fortunes of the Buddhist sangha.

Rise and fall of Indian Buddhism was a stranger, more exciting process than we know

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Andhra was once as foreign to Buddhism as China was. Its conversion to the religion took many innovations, including worship of the dead.

Turks weren’t barbarians. They appreciated Hindu temple architecture

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The Ghaznavids and Ghorids were not the medieval equivalents of ISIS fundamentalists, as we might like to believe.
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