相当于我国东周的中期,古印度的大圣人释迦牟尼创立了辉煌的佛教文明。大约在东汉初年,经贯通亚洲的丝绸之路,佛教从新疆传入中原,或许更早些经蜀身毒道和茶马古道传入洱海地区。佛教传入洱海地区后,特别是南诏、大理国对意识形态统治的需要,经两朝皇家的倡引,使南诏、大理奇迹般成为佛国。而在佛教诸佛、菩萨、尊者、阿罗汉中,阿嵯耶观音是大理白族缁素两众最为信奉的第一神祇。 Equivalent to the middle of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China, the great saint of ancient India, Sakyamuni created a brilliant Buddhist civilization. About the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after passing through the Silk Road in Asia, Buddhism was introduced from Xinjiang to the Central Plains, perhaps earlier, passing Shu Shu Road and the Ancient Tea Horse Road in Erhai Lake. After Buddhism was introduced to Erhai Lake region, especially Nanzhao and Dali Kingdom, the need of ideological dominance was advocated by the two royal families to make Nanzhao and Dali magically become Buddhism. In Buddhism Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Venerable, Arhat, Imam Yew, Guanyin is the first god of the Dali Bai nationality two primeval.