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Imagination and Narrative: Lexical and Cultural Translation in Buddhist Asia singapore the military branch of theEdited by Peter Skilling and Justin Thomas McDaniel The essays in this volume highlight the movement of Buddhist ideas and practices across Asia and how the encounter of far flung cultures and personalities encouraged adaptation and transformation. At times this meant textual translation and transmission, as seen in the chapters about Chinese and Japanese Buddhist texts and their authors, or the analysis of Buddhist manuscripts in northern Thailand.