Networks of Faith and Profit

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2017, under the title: Networks of profit and faith: spanning the sea of Japan and the East China Sea, 838-1403.

1. Introduction: Buddhist trade networks in East Asia; 2. Replacing tributary relations: the reciprocal collaboration between monks and merchants, 839-900; 3. Not only for the dharma: pilgrim monks as intermediaries between China and Japan, 900-1100; 4. Building a Base for Trade: the 'Chinese quarter' in Hakata, 1100-1200; 5. Transporting goods and faith: the economic privileges of the religious network, 1200-1270; 6. Sending ships to China to finance monastery construction: trade between the Mongol empire and the Japanese archipelago, 1270-1368; 7. Resuming tribute relations and the aftermath of the religio-commercial network, 1368-1403.