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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.
通行。 （十）逢佛光山大型活動或學術會議期間，須配合事宜將另行通知。 三、研究須知 （一）應向採訪對象說明採集資料之用途，取得對方同意後，始能進行採訪。 （二）訪問結束前，須將研究成果和採集資料以電子檔繳交院方審閱，如涉及與佛光山有關 之內容（包含照片、影音、文字，且不限書面及數位等格式）經院方核定為惡意言論 或有違公正事實者，不得納入研究或其他用途，亦不得公開、傳輸給第三人。 （三）研究之進行須遵守國家法律和學術倫理。 此致 財團法人佛光山人間佛教研究院 ※本人於下方簽字，表示業已詳閱上述規定，如違反本聲明，院方有權隨時終止本人訪問資 格，且本人願自負.....
