作品简介
千年前文化使者，记录异国风土人情，推进世界文明发展。
本书讲述了中国第一位游历海外取经求法的高僧法显的传奇经历。法显时代，中土的佛教刚刚兴起，他因强烈的信仰于花甲之年毅然去往异域他乡搜集佛教经典，历经十余年返回故土，为佛教在中国的传播做出巨大贡献。他首次求得并翻译了印度本土的佛教典籍；首次扩展了西域、中亚以及印度至中国间的地理知识；首次记载了所经西域和南亚地区的历史、文化、宗教等情况，为研究中亚和南亚古代历史留下了不可或缺的历史文献。他西行时正值东西方文化大交流的开端时期，随着我国“一带一路”政策的深入推进，法显西行求法的经历对我们今天乃至今后的发展仍有启示意义。
胡运宏，南京林业大学风景园林学院副教授，主持国家社科基金项目“江南园林的历史演进研究”。出版学术专著2部、参编2部，发表学术论文30余篇。
Introduction of works
A thousand years ago, cultural envoys recorded foreign customs and practices to promote the development of world civilization.
This book tells the story of Faxian, the first Chinese monk to travel overseas to learn Buddhist teachings. In the Faxian era, Buddhism in China had just emerged. In his 60s, he resolutely went to a foreign land to collect Buddhist classics due to his strong belief. After more than ten years, he returned to his native land and made great contributions to the spread of Buddhism in China. He was the first to obtain and translate native Indian Buddhist texts; Expanded geographical knowledge of the Western Regions, Central Asia, and India to China for the first time; It recorded the history, culture and religion of the Western regions and South Asia for the first time, leaving indispensable historical documents for the study of the ancient history of Central Asia and South Asia. When he went west, he was at the beginning of the great cultural exchanges between the East and the West. With the further promotion of China's "One Belt, One Road" policy, his experience of seeking Fa in the west is still enlighten to our development today and in the future.
Hu Yunhong, associate professor at the College of Landscape Architecture, Nanjing Forestry University, is leading the National Social Science Foundation project "Research on the Historical Evolution of Jiangnan Gardens". He has published two academic monographs, participated in editing two, and published more than 30 academic papers.
