Lewis R. Lancaster

Emeritus Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley

人間佛教的傳播

程恭讓、妙凡法師總編輯

Today, we are discussing the spread of Humanistic Buddhism and I want to put it into the context of the history of how Buddhism has spread over the centuries. Buddhist sources of history recount the first spread of Buddhism outside of India to Sri Lanka during the lifetime of the founder, sometime in the 5th century BCE. By the 13th century of the Common Era, the religion could be found in a wide area of southeast Eurasia in what I have termed “The Great Circle of Buddhism.”

Lewis R. Lancaster, " The Spread of Humanistic Buddhism, " 2017人間佛教高峰論壇──人間佛教的社會向度 (2018): 3-8COPY