El Budismo IranioEl budismo iranio durante el periodo parto-sasánida entre el paganismo y el chamanismo

Abstract

Iranian Buddhism is a syncretic process among the pre-mazdean traditions, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism during the Parthian-Sasanian period. The uniqueness of this phenomenon lies in its development between urban and hierarchical society and the values of the old shamanic system. The Parthian-Sasanian Iran was implementing the system of the Magi as administrators of the ritual and hence the confrontation and the shamanic ordeal between Mani and Kartīr, extended as well to all those shamanic-ascetic practices that threatened the Zoroastrian order. In that context, Buddhist asceticism enters into the orb of theological debate and itinerant spirituality of the Ancient Iranian world, promoting the religious adaptation of the Buddhist message itself in its western expansion