Succession through reincarnation First, some history: From India, Buddhism took two routes to spread elsewhere in Asia-- one south, to Sri Lanka and then to Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and elsewhere in Southeast Asia; and one north, to China, Tibet, Mongolia and then on to Japan and Korea.
佛教在印度創立後，分南北兩路傳至亞洲。南向由印度、斯里蘭卡傳往東南亞國家，如緬甸、泰國、越南。北向則輸往中國、西藏、蒙古到日本、韓國。