Marc Mendoza is an associate lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. His main research fields so far have been Alexander the Great, the Diadochi and early Hellenistic Central Asia, but he has also published papers on Achaemenid deportations, modern reception, and Catalan historiography. He is the co-director of Karanos: Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies.Ashwini Lakshminarayanan is a UKRI-Horizon Guarantee Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Cardiff University. Her work centres on religious material culture in the Indian subcontinent dating from the ancient to medieval periods (c.1st century BCE to the 15th century CE). In recent years, her publications have provided new interpretations of gender and rituals in Buddhist art, particularly in the corpus of Gandhāran art.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).- Part 1. Central Asia.- Chapter 2. Textual Archaeology: On sacred groves in Hellenised Central Asia (Mendoza).- Chapter 3. Making Space for Buddhism: Early Buddhist Practice in Hellenistic Central Asian Religious Spaces (Ross).- Chapter 4. The merging of Theravādin and Mahāsaṁghika traditions in the decoration of Haḍḍa monasteries (Vanleene).-  Chapter 5. Power through religion and religion through power. Royal agency and local cults in Hellenistic Central Asia and Northwest India (Coloru).- Part 2. South Asia.- Chapter 6. Representation of Gandhāra as a multireligious place in Vita Apollonii by Philostratus (Kubica).-  Chapter 7. Dance around the Buddha: Multicultural Performances in Gandhāran Art (Lakshminarayanan).- Chapter 8. Jaina and Vīraśaiva Interactions in South India: Archaeological Evidence for Dependencies and Mutual Exchange (Hegewald).- Chapter 9. “Protector of all Practices”: The Religious Endowments of a Hoysaḷa Queen (Gururaja).- Chapter 10. Conclusions (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).

Marc Mendoza is an associate lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. His main research fields so far have been Alexander the Great, the Diadochi and early Hellenistic Central Asia, but he has also published papers on Achaemenid deportations, modern reception, and Catalan historiography. He is the co-director of Karanos: Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies.Ashwini Lakshminarayanan is a UKRI-Horizon Guarantee Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Cardiff University. Her work centres on religious material culture in the Indian subcontinent dating from the ancient to medieval periods (c.1st century BCE to the 15th century CE). In recent years, her publications have provided new interpretations of gender and rituals in Buddhist art, particularly in the corpus of Gandhāran art.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).- Part 1. Central Asia.- Chapter 2. Textual Archaeology: On sacred groves in Hellenised Central Asia (Mendoza).- Chapter 3. Making Space for Buddhism: Early Buddhist Practice in Hellenistic Central Asian Religious Spaces (Ross).- Chapter 4. The merging of Theravādin and Mahāsaṁghika traditions in the decoration of Haḍḍa monasteries (Vanleene).-  Chapter 5. Power through religion and religion through power. Royal agency and local cults in Hellenistic Central Asia and Northwest India (Coloru).- Part 2. South Asia.- Chapter 6. Representation of Gandhāra as a multireligious place in Vita Apollonii by Philostratus (Kubica).-  Chapter 7. Dance around the Buddha: Multicultural Performances in Gandhāran Art (Lakshminarayanan).- Chapter 8. Jaina and Vīraśaiva Interactions in South India: Archaeological Evidence for Dependencies and Mutual Exchange (Hegewald).- Chapter 9. “Protector of all Practices”: The Religious Endowments of a Hoysaḷa Queen (Gururaja).- Chapter 10. Conclusions (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).

Marc Mendoza is an associate lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. His main research fields so far have been Alexander the Great, the Diadochi and early Hellenistic Central Asia, but he has also published papers on Achaemenid deportations, modern reception, and Catalan historiography. He is the co-director of Karanos: Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies.Ashwini Lakshminarayanan is a UKRI-Horizon Guarantee Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Cardiff University. Her work centres on religious material culture in the Indian subcontinent dating from the ancient to medieval periods (c.1st century BCE to the 15th century CE). In recent years, her publications have provided new interpretations of gender and rituals in Buddhist art, particularly in the corpus of Gandhāran art.

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).- Part 1. Central Asia.- Chapter 2. Textual Archaeology: On sacred groves in Hellenised Central Asia (Mendoza).- Chapter 3. Making Space for Buddhism: Early Buddhist Practice in Hellenistic Central Asian Religious Spaces (Ross).- Chapter 4. The merging of Theravādin and Mahāsaṁghika traditions in the decoration of Haḍḍa monasteries (Vanleene).-  Chapter 5. Power through religion and religion through power. Royal agency and local cults in Hellenistic Central Asia and Northwest India (Coloru).- Part 2. South Asia.- Chapter 6. Representation of Gandhāra as a multireligious place in Vita Apollonii by Philostratus (Kubica).-  Chapter 7. Dance around the Buddha: Multicultural Performances in Gandhāran Art (Lakshminarayanan).- Chapter 8. Jaina and Vīraśaiva Interactions in South India: Archaeological Evidence for Dependencies and Mutual Exchange (Hegewald).- Chapter 9. “Protector of all Practices”: The Religious Endowments of a Hoysaḷa Queen (Gururaja).- Chapter 10. Conclusions (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).