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2019致護法朋友的一封信
各位護法、朋友們,大家吉祥!「千門萬戶曈曈日,總把新桃換舊符」,2019己亥年是豬年。十二生肖中,豬,代表一個循環的圓滿和繼起。星雲大師題寫「諸事吉祥」一筆字春聯,祝福大家,身心自在。兩年前,大師腦部手術,在高雄長庚醫療團隊的照護下,復原良好。92歲的大師說:「我沒有痛苦,我沒有生病,只是有點不方便。」心繫兩岸和平及人間佛教的發展,大師說:「我還要更努力。」佛世難逢,大善知識難遇,僧信二眾當奮起飛揚,追隨大師推動人間佛教的腳步。
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.