How did Indian monks, nuns, merchants, travelers, and empires from what is now modern India and other parts of South Asia spread religious ideas and practices and cultural styles of art and architecture to Central and Southeast Asia?

Download Primary Source Set: South and Southeast Asia

This set uses two cultural productions -the Ramayana and representations of Buddhist and Hindu religious figures -to give students tangible evidence of the transmission of religious ideas and practices and cultural styles of art and architecture from South Asia to Southeast Asia. It also offers an economical way to expose students to Hinduism, Buddhism, the Gupta and Mughal empires, and the major movements in South and Southeast Asian religion and history from 300 to 1700 (excepting Sikhism).