佛教作为一种历史文化形态, 其发展过程并非印度文化的自我演化, 而是包括中国文化、西亚文化等广大亚洲文化共同汇流的结果。通过对一些原始经论的考据, 可以看出这种汇流不仅表现为印度的佛教文化进入中土进行融汇, 也表现为中国本土文化流入印度, 影响印度的佛教文化, 再以佛教文化的形式回流到中国。

As a historical cultural formation, the Buddhist development is not a self-evolution of Indian culture, but results from confluence of diverse Asian cultures including Chinese culture and West Asian cultures. Through a critical examination of some original Buddhist scriptures and texts in this paper, it can be realized that such confluence finds expressions not only in the merging of Indian Buddhist culture into China, but also in the spread of Chinese native culture into India so as to influence Indian Buddhist culture and in tum flow back to China as a form of Buddhist culture.