Lewis R. Lancaster

Intended as background for the major multimedia exhibit on the subject at Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Museum in Taiwan this book shows that the major route of Buddhism from India into China and beyond was by sea rather than the previously accepted land route, though that was the initial path. Century after century Buddhist merchants brought monks and manuscripts from India and Sri Lanka to multiple ports in southeast Asia and then to China, where trade winds dictated they spend large segments of the year. There are many maps, most of them simple illustrations of the documented journeys of known Buddhist proponents and many photographic illustrations.… (meer)