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深耕生命教育邁向永續發展——南華大學創校 25 週年
The Buddhist Maritime Silk Road (3): The Great Circle of Buddhism and Its Rim
The spread of the Buddhist movement throughout the peninsula and across to Sri Lanka was impressive. However, a far greater challenge awaited the tradition outside the cultural and linguistic domains of India. The “Great Circle”would carry Buddhist ideas and practices thousands of miles away from India. New homes for it were found along the coasts and rivers, wherever merchants needed to go. Eventually, the arcs of the “Great Circle” of Buddhism would encompass the whole of Southeast Eurasia. One portion of the arc went from the West Coast of India up the Indus Valley and around the far end of the Himalayas to the Tarim Basin leading to Chang’an (Xi’an), a route of more than 4,000 miles. The connecting maritime segment of the “Great Circle” started on the western shores of India, circling the peninsula and Sri Lanka up the East Coast to the Bay of Bengal and then moving East around the coastlines of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, across to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, before turning north to East Asia and the ports of China, Korea, and Japan. The circumference of both arcs land and sea, measured enough miles to encircle the equator of the earth; the indented shorelines contained 20,000 miles of surface, five times the land route mileage.
《新加坡佛光山人間佛教弘法史》 3月隆重發行
研究撰寫。首部著作《新加坡佛光山人間佛教弘法史》，將於 3 月正式出版發行。 《佛光山全球弘法史叢書系列》以嚴謹的學術方法為基礎，系統梳理人間佛教走向全球的歷史脈絡，呈現佛光教團一甲子以來的弘法實踐與發展成果，為當代佛教史研究留下重要文獻，同時也藉此向星雲大師致敬，感念其一生推動佛教現代化與全球化的慈心願力。 叢書系列總監修心保和尚於〈序文〉中提到：「大師深刻體察現代的社會變遷、人心所需，保留佛教精髓，透過文化、教育、慈善、共修等方式，重新塑造佛教新氣象，開展出現代人間佛教」。總編輯佛光山人間佛教研究院院長妙凡法師云：「本系列研究能為當代與未來的人間佛教研究，提供可資對話、省思與拓展的學術基礎.....
