BOOK VI | ||
BUDDHISM OUTSIDE INDIA | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| XXXIV. | [EXPANSION OF INDIAN INFLUENCE] | [3] |
| XXXV. | [CEYLON] | [11] |
| XXXVI. | [BURMA] | [46] |
| XXXVII. | [SIAM] | [78] |
| XXXVIII. | [CAMBOJA] | [100] |
| XXXIX. | [CHAMPA] | [137] |
| XL. | [JAVA AND THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO] | [151] |
| XLI. | [CENTRAL ASIA] | [188] |
| XLII. | [CHINA. INTRODUCTORY] | [223] |
| XLIII. | [CHINA (continued). HISTORY] | [244] |
| XLIV. | [CHINA (continued). THE CANON] | [281] |
| XLV. | [CHINA (continued). SCHOOLS OF CHINESE BUDDHISM] | [303] |
| XLVI. | [CHINA (continued). CHINESE BUDDHISM AT THE PRESENT DAY] | [321] |
| XLVII. | [KOREA] | [336] |
| XLVIII. | [ANNAM] | [340] |
| XLIX. | [TIBET. INTRODUCTORY] | [345] |
| L. | [TIBET (continued). HISTORY] | [347] |
| LI. | [TIBET (continued). THE CANON] | [372] |
| LII. | [TIBET (continued). DOCTRINES OF LAMAISM] | [382] |
| LIII. | [TIBET (continued). SECTS] | [397] |
| LIV. | [JAPAN] | [402] |
BOOK VII | ||
MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF EASTERN AND WESTERN RELIGIONS | ||
| LV. | [INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA] | [409] |
| LVI. | [INDIAN INFLUENCE IN THE WESTERN WORLD] | [429] |
| LVII. | [PERSIAN INFLUENCE IN INDIA] | [449] |
| LVIII. | [MOHAMMEDANISM IN INDIA] | [455] |
| [INDEX] | [463] | |
BOOK VI
BUDDHISM OUTSIDE INDIA
CHAPTER XXXIV
EXPANSION OF INDIAN INFLUENCE
INTRODUCTORY
The subject of this Book is the expansion of Indian influence throughout Eastern Asia and the neighbouring islands. That influence is clear and wide-spread, nay almost universal, and it is with justice that we speak of Further India and the Dutch call their colonies Neerlands Indië. For some early chapters in the story of this expansion the dates and details are meagre, but on the whole the investigator's chief difficulty is to grasp and marshal the mass of facts relating to the development of religion and civilization in this great region.
The spread of Hindu thought was an intellectual conquest, not an exchange of ideas. On the north-western frontier there was some reciprocity, but otherwise the part played by India was consistently active and not receptive. The Far East counted for nothing in her internal history, doubtless because China was too distant and the other countries had no special culture of their own. Still it is remarkable that whereas many Hindu missionaries preached Buddhism in China, the idea of making Confucianism known in India seems never to have entered the head of any Chinese.