Pillars and stupas : second century B.C.E. to third century C.E. -- The Buddha image : second to seventh century -- Caves and caravans : India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and China -- China : a new dimension, sixth to ninth century -- Korea and Japan : sixth to ninth century -- South Asia : regional styles and changes in religious thought, eighth to twelfth century -- The Himalayan region : Nepal, Kashmir, Ladakh, and Tibet, eighth to twelfth century -- Southeast Asia : diffusion and divergence -- China under foreign rule : tenth to fourteenth century -- Aristocrats and warriors in Korea and Japan : tenth to fourteenth century -- Early Sino-Tibetan traditions : twelfth to fifteenth century -- The Dalai Lamas in Tibet : sixteenth to nineteenth century -- Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand : fifteenth to nineteenth century -- Ming, Manchu, and Mongol in China : fifteenth to eighteenth century -- Revivals in Korea and Japan : sixteenth to nineteenth century.
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