Abstract
Abstract: This article revisits the Chinese Buddhist sources on the Pyus and Śrīkṣetra in early Burma. Buddhist references to the region mainly come from the Tang period (618–907). These texts, authored by the famous monks Xuanzang and Yijing, do not use the Chinese transcriptional term Biao, which corresponds to Pyu, but exclusively use the name Śrīkṣetra. They do not refer to any local form of Buddhism or do so only in very general terms. Buddhism as practiced by the Pyus (Biao) is first mentioned in the ninth-century text, the Manshu . The Chinese sources certainly do not prove that Buddhism has not yet been adopted on a large scale, but they may indicate a relatively late consolidation of Buddhism in the region.
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