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'ne mrmiuin, of Buddhism m I-. ho-, tmk a diffmt form. mm<br />
Whcn Bvddhirm war intmluad inm Ceylon, Burnu, and Thpiland, it fd d y<br />
accepQnce among the in hse munhies. m Buddhism urar the civilizing<br />
influence. With little or M ztni"mts in them. Urn-, md thought, the<br />
Ceylonese, Burmeu, and Thai welcomed Bdtrm in the hhap that their aun<br />
cultural levels wuld be elwted by the ruperioreivilila~on brought in with the<br />
religion."<br />
Thais, lhese mvnuiu curie under the ovmhelming influem of the dominant Indb<br />
mkq, and, in the ppmcur, incqmaed Buddhism inm their culm. Similnrly, lagan,<br />
through KO=. m e under the influence of 1 dominant Chimse. wcicy, ad ndgh<br />
cnirrre inn-, alw, ampled Buddhism (with Confucianism and Iome Taoism). Mr<br />
Richard Pilgrim, in their book, Joponrv Religim: A CWmml Pcmpaiw, unite:<br />
Ih mditional dae fw the intmluction of Buddhism m Japan mrrrppmds m 538<br />
or 552 C.E. We ~ rmld c by the Mbwhdi that in Ihl year a ffim king sat the<br />
Japanese empaor r Buddhin scripture and image with a lntcr amlling meir<br />
merin. lk permdon of the Buddha's dhnm reachin%,' %W), md equally<br />
' Im Naftiey, Ihe Hem SYm: A Chinese Apocryphal Text?' J d of the<br />
I~c~ioMIAss(~~im'on of B&irrSNdies 15. No. 2 (l992), pp. 153-223.<br />
" Ch'en, Ilu Chinese T W-on of Buddhinn, p. 5.
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