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Buddhism at Sea: The Srivijayan Mahayana Revival
In episode 3 of our Srivijaya series, Lucas and Luna explore the empire's surprising role as a Buddhist superpower. After the Chola raid of 1025, Srivijaya didn't collapse—it reinvented itself. We meet King Sri Maravijayottungavarman, who sent embassies to China and sponsored a new wave of Mahayana scholarship. At the heart of this revival was the great teacher Suvarṇadvīpa—Dharmakīrti or another?—who trained at Nalanda and returned to build a monastic network across Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. We also uncover a forgotten figure: the Chinese monk Wuyin, who studied in Srivijaya…
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