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  • Buddhism became very prominent in Chinese Buddhism. The story of Shan-tzǔ ... a part of the Buddhist tradition, Chinese Buddhism raised them from a peripheral ...
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  • ; 妙法蓮華經 Chinese: Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng; Japanese: Myōhō ... of the newly founded Mahayana sect of Buddhism, more than 500 years after ...
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  • The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji ... end. Rinzai is the Japanese branch of the Chinese Linji school, which was ...
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  • a Buddhist, he encouraged the spread of Buddhism through the state; however ... one of the most public leaders in Chinese history. Burdened with many ...
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  • Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist ... quot;), the first systematic work of Chinese etymology. He developed ...
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  • these structures incorporated elements of Chinese pavilions and towers. ... encounter with the East. The original Chinese is ta, which is an abbreviated ...
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  • He translated more than 60 sutras into Chinese, including Saravanabhava ... works that are important not only for Chinese Buddhism but for the religion ...
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  • example of the importance that Korean Buddhism places on the written word ... extant version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script. Carved onto 81,258 ...
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  • Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known ... and these traits are associated with the Chinese concept of Yin (the feminine ...
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  • Jianzhen or Ganjin (Chien-chen鑒真 or 鑑真; 688–763) was a Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ...
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  • Daman Hongren (Chinese: 弘忍) (Wade-Giles:Shih Hung-jen; Japanese: ... After Chan Buddhism had been established in China for several centuries ...
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  • 35 years. She encouraged the influence of Chinese culture and Buddhism by ... reign include the official recognition of Buddhism by the issuance of the Flourishing ...
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  • Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信, Wade-Giles: Tao-hsin) (Japanese: Dōshin ... of daily life, a them which became central to Chan Buddhism. ...
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  • Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai) or Lotus ...
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  • appear to have been shamanistic, but Chinese culture increasingly influenced ... fall. The first mention of Goguryeo in Chinese records dates from 75 B ...
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  • tradition. He was a reformer, who took Buddhism to the common people and ... He was the first to systematize Korean Buddhism, bringing the various Buddhist ...
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  • respected and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet, China, ... employed during the earliest period of Buddhism and were then later developed ...
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  • In the Vajrayana Buddhism, Upasaka Dharmatala is a well known Upasaka ... In both the Chinese Ch'an and Japanese Zen traditions, a ceremony ...
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  • Grottoes reveal the profound impact that Buddhism has had in the eastern part ... * Chinese Buddhism * Buddhist Art * Mogao Caves ==Notes== ...
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  • The Panchen Lama (Tibetan: པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་; Chinese: ... In Tibetan Buddhism, upon the death of either the Dalai Lama or Panchen ...
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  • the bureaucratic political ladder of the Chinese government and served as ... of the reign of Emperor Tang Xuanzong (Chinese: 唐玄宗) (712–730) ...
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  • The Mogao Caves have become the best known of the Chinese Buddhist ... *Chinese Buddhism *Gansu *Wood Block Printing *Silk Road ...
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  • are an important part of Hinduism and Buddhism and they are frequently ... techniques. Meanwhile, the emergence of Buddhism in the sixth century B.C ...
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  • ) is a central concept in Buddhism, which corresponds to a number ... In Chinese Buddhism, Dukkha was translated as kǔ (苦 "bitterness; ...
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  • the empire in 1211 C.E., traditional Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources ... Since the empire took on trappings of a Chinese state, Chinese historians ...
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  • ; Chinese for short:慧可; pinyin: Huìkě; Wade-Giles: Hui-k’o; ... method to reach a true understanding of Buddhism, and that he taught that ...
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  • of Asia, including China and Tibet where Buddhism continueed to flourish after ... The Chinese pilgrim-monk Xuanzang Samuel Beal, Buddhism In China. ...
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  • In both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions of Buddhism, faith is ... As Buddhism evolved and spread throughout Asia, the act of faith became ...
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  • Vairocana is one of many Buddhas revered by particular sects of Sino-Japanese Buddhism, especially among the Chinese school of Hua-Yen, and the ...
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  • Daoist classics, attributed to the famous Chinese immortal Lü Dongbin (798 ... Golden Flower is attributed to the famous Chinese immortal Lü Dong bin (798 ...
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  • to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen Buddhism, an undertaking in which ... Haeju, to assist in his teaching of Seon Buddhism, and the work was subsequently ...
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  • (鬼節) or Yulan Festival (traditional Chinese: 盂蘭盆節; simplified ... K. Chen, "Filial Piety in Chinese Buddhism" Harvard Journal ...
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  • on Mount Emei had long been the home of Chinese martial arts. ... * Chinese Buddhism * Tang Dynasty * Sacred Mountains of China ...
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  • Liǔ Zōngyuán, 773 – 819) was a Chinese writer, Chinese poet and ... elements of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Around 180 of his poems ...
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  • to Korea to warn King Munmo that the Chinese were planning an invasion ... one of the leaders of the developing Chinese Huayan tradition. ...
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  • Chinese 菩提達摩, Japanese ダルマ), a seminal role in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from India to China (where ...
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  • its teachings derived from the books of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism ... and regards Taoism and Confucianism, Buddhism's predominance has ...
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  • wrote a number of essays criticizing Buddhism, but his final treatise ... his anti-Buddhist polemic, he criticized Buddhism in a number of treatises ...
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  • throughout the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Chöd entwines the traditions ... of the contemporary schools of Tibetan Buddhism and due to the dissemination ...
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  • | nationality = Chinese | denomination = | school ... | title = Third Chinese Patriarch | workplace = ...
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  • Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...
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  • Huángbò Xīyùn (simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运 traditional: 黄檗希運 ... ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ...
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  • picture of Unified Silla civilization. Buddhism and aristocratic society ... In the seventh century, Silla allied itself with the Chinese Tang ...
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  • and his attempts to reform the Chinese government often resulted ... Confucian ideals. He deplored Daoism and Buddhism as teachings which encouraged ...
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  • of the 'East Mountain Teachings' (Chinese: tung-shan fa ... Master), only the second time in Chinese Buddhism and the first for three ...
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  • Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂 ... Lin Yutang wrote extensively on Chinese social, cultural traditions ...
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  • was crumbling, however, that Japanese Buddhism, which had been declining ... theories about him. Shinran’s theory of Buddhism came from deep insight and ...
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  • that developed in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism circa fourth century C.E. ... The two principal schools of Indian Mahayana Buddhism are the Yogācāra ...
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  • traditions, especially Taoism and Buddhism. Adherents engage in eclectic ... of God, we see influences from Taoism, Buddhism, and Western monotheistic ...
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  • Capital of Liao, then invaded the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty( 宋朝 ... tenth century, when the Balhae (Bohai in Chinese,振, then 渤海) kingdom ...
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  • one of the foremost pilgrimage sites in Buddhism. Siddhartha, as Buddha Gautama ... Records made by the Chinese pilgrim Fa Xian were also used in the ...
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  • world and the West by introducing Zen Buddhism and other Far Eastern religious ... to Ceylon to study Pāli and Theravada Buddhism and live the alien life ...
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  • words such as Bodhi or satori in Buddhism, or moksha in Hinduism and ... ===Bodhi (Buddhism)=== Bodhi (बोधि) is the Pāli and Sanskrit ...
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  • During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ... brought about by the adoption of Chinese models of government, incorporating ...
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  • respect of China. Silla's welcome to Buddhism and Confucianism, blending ... name has been recorded with various Hanja (Chinese characters) phonetically ...
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  • , 531–591) was a Chinese scholar, calligrapher, painter, musician ... and education, Yan Zhitui supported Buddhism and defended it against ...
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  • students in arts and culture steeped in Buddhism and Taoism. Those societies ... In 520, King Beopheung instituted Chinese-style reforms and formalized ...
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  • the headquarters of the Tendai school of Buddhism. At a young age, he raised ... the Ts'ao-t'ung lineage of Zen Buddhism in Mt. Tien-tung (J. Tendo ...
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  • was Batuo, (also, Fotuo or Bhadra (the Chinese transposition of Buddha ... because of its long association with Chinese martial arts and particularly ...
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  • Kumārajīva (Simplified Chinese: 鸠摩罗什; Traditional Chinese: ... of doctrinal classification in Chinese Buddhism: a study of the panjiao ...
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  • flourished in on Mount Wuyi, followed by Buddhism at a later date. The combination ... ===Taoism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism=== In the seventh century ...
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  • Chinese Chan master in Tang-era China. He founded one of the five ... height by cultivating the truth embedded within Buddhism. ...
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  • a jelly-like noodle), negi (green onions), Chinese cabbage, and enokitake mushrooms ... after the eighth century when Buddhism was introduced to Japan ...
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  • Shingon Buddhism (眞言, 真言 "true words") is a major ... version of the Huayan School of Chinese Buddhism, brought to Japan via ...
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  • renovations. Those advances come out of Buddhism's tenet that humans ... As a consequence of the heavy fighting, many innocent Chinese and ...
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  • The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... Chinese culture underwent several turning points and renewals throughout ...
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  • Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions ... The earliest well-documented influence of Buddhism in Tibet dates ...
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  • Giles: Fung Yu-lan) (1895–1990) was a Chinese philosopher who was important ... Dewey. After publication of History of Chinese Philosophy Feng continued ...
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  • quot; or "Perfection." In Buddhism, the Paramitas refer to ... of the bodhisattva path found in Mahayana Buddhism. This path involves the ...
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  • Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master best known ... "Fo-jih," the "Sun of Buddhism." The following year ...
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  • in the student. In some forms of Buddhism, the Guru-disciple relationship ... === In Buddhism === Dharma transmission (Chinese: 傳法, Chuánfǎ ...
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  • that the Jin would inevitably dominate the Chinese, he began plotting to usurp ... Cheong argued that Korea had become too Chinese and too Confucian, and had ...
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  • teaching in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism, which affirms that each ... transformation of twentiety-century Chinese Buddhism: Master Yinshun's ...
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  • Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... in the institutional field of alternative Chinese science, not religion, as ...
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  • other intellectual traditions, such as Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy ... from non-Western traditions, such as Chinese or Indian philosophy, often ...
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  • chosen to represent three elements of Buddhism, bul or Buddha, beop or ... In 636 he traveled to Zhongnanshan Mountain, the home of Chinese Buddhism ...
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  • temple. The contribution he made to Buddhism and Buddhist art in Singapore ... U Kyaw Gaung aimed to introduce Theravada Buddhism in Singapore.Than, "A ...
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  • holds a special place as a center for Buddhism during the Mauryan Empire ... but by the time of the visit of the Chinese pilgrim monk, Xuanzang, ...
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  • of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poets. Born into a noble ... Early Chinese poetry grew from a rich tradition of folk songs and ...
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  • Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism.Heriyanto ... by dharmic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. These religions were brought ...
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  • Moksadeva, or Yüan-tsang) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, ... Central Asia and India. The classic Chinese novel Xiyou ji (Journey ...
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  • The Mahayana Chinese/Japanese version differs only slightly from the ... The prayer for taking refuge in Tibetan Buddhism. *སངས་རྒྱས་ ...
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  • into the education system in China. In Buddhism, the golden mean, or better ... ===Doctrine of the Mean in Chinese Society=== In China prior to the ...
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  • from 665 to 690, not unprecedented in Chinese history, she then broke ... beautiful." Thus, today Chinese people refer to her as Wu ...
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  • of the Japanese Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism. He transformed the Rinzai ... At the age of 19, he came across in his studies the story of the Chinese ...
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  • Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism ...
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  • The "ji" in the name of Jirisan or Mt. Jiri is the chinese ... a few centuries after the introduction of Buddhism to Korea. Destroyed during ...
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  • Chang Heng-ch'ü. 1020-1077) was a Chinese Neo-Confucian moral ... spent several years studying Daoism and Buddhism. After concluding that these ...
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  • K. Chen, "Filial Piety in Chinese Buddhism" Harvard Journal ... ghosts" is a ritual of Japanese Buddhism, traditionally performed ...
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  • previously ascendant court religion of Buddhism. During his reign, Daoist ... friendly relations with the Song Chinese, based on economic and cultural ...
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  • :See Korean Buddhism for more information. [[Image:Monk_in_the_temple ... Buddhism originated in India and came to Korea by way of China. A ...
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  • between Singapore and the community of Chinese merchants in Bangkok. The ... III was a devout and faithful follower of Buddhism. He built or repaired 50 ...
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  • Christianity and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth ... Christianity in China, he showed Chinese scholars that foreign countries ...
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  • Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) is art, both ancient ... Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) has taken various ...
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  • The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Halhūn be jailara gurung) or Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng ...
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  • survives, also in seven books, six in Chinese and one in Tibetan. These ... Lanka and Thailand, "official" Buddhism has in large part adopted ...
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  • of Asia including China and Tibet, where Buddhism continued to flourish after ... In the early decades of Buddhism the wandering monks of the Sangha ...
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  • Ananda (Chinese: 阿難, A Nan or 阿難陀, A Nan Tuo) was one of ... a ripe old age. When Fa Hien, the famous Chinese pilgrim, visited India in ...
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  • ) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ... the countryside became a common theme in Chinese art and a model for later ...
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  • Hwanin 환인(桓因) is an alias in Buddhism for the name Indra, ... Asia. Hwanin is a pronunciation of the Chinese letters "환인 桓因 ...
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  • grew to become the largest sect in Chinese Buddhism. The teachers claiming ... Ch’an grew to become the largest sect in Chinese Buddhism and, despite ...
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  • calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ... calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ...
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  • China were triggered by the embassy of the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian during ... Following Zhang Qian's embassy and report, commercial Chinese ...
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  • river. These contests were of three types: Chinese poetry, Tanka poetry, and ... a similar practice in collections of Chinese poems of the time. Unlike ...
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  • the development of Hindu art, until Buddhism virtually disappeared in ... form during the first few centuries of Buddhism. This reluctance towards ...
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  • history. Prior to the arrival of Islam, Buddhism and tradition Chinese culture ... Ningxia is the home of the Hui, one of the officially recognized Chinese ...
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  • left the monastery, where the practice of Buddhism was frequently lax, and ... the age of eleven, he studied Japanese and Chinese classics. ...
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  • trade. Historically on the periphery of Chinese power and economy, that ... Zhejiang was outside the sphere of influence of early Chinese civilization ...
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  • century, Sinocentrism was replaced with Chinese nationalism (zhonghua minzu ... of China, and relations between the Chinese Empire and these peoples ...
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  • Korean art was strongly influenced by Chinese art and the exchange of ... the primary influence on Korean art was Chinese painting, though the subject ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... Chinese myths are thought to have originated around the twelfth century ...
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  • deities who play an important role in Chinese religion and culture. While ... times throughout the vast corpus of Chinese folktales and literature. ...
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  • the Koreans unambiguously triumphed over the Chinese. ==Background== ... to China the following year to study Taoism and Buddhism. ...
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  • Hanh was also instrumental in bringing Buddhism to the West, and engaging ... Thiền) and the Mahayana school of Buddhism and was ordained as a monk ...
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  • 'ṣṭāṅga mārgaḥ; Chinese: 八正道, Bāzhèngdào; ... ethical code followed by lay followers of Buddhism: :1. To refrain ...
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  • became the preferred stone of post-1800 Chinese imperial scholars and rulers ... From about the earliest Chinese dynasties until present, the jade ...
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  • , also known as Shin Buddhism, was founded by the former Tendai Japanese ... one of the most widely followed forms of Buddhism in Japan. Today, there are ...
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  • tests measured candidates knowledge of the Chinese classics, and sometimes ... jabeop) in a variety of fields, including Buddhism. Monks who passed then received ...
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  • The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within ... rites as they sought to create a Chinese version of Christianity ...
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  • and is also considered to be holy in Buddhism, Sikhism, and some new religious ... appeared as "唵" in Chinese Buddhism, and was also utilized ...
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  • Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric ... While Vajrayana Buddhism is a part of Tibetan Buddhism, in that it ...
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  • transcendence, a theme documented in Chinese history since the legendary ... like De and Deeds, have become part of Chinese culture and thought. Western ...
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  • Japan from abroad were Confucianism, Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, Daoism ... Among Far Eastern traditions, while Chinese thought has generally had ...
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  • from the seventh to the tenth century. Buddhism and Daoism were introduced ... synonymous with all of Japan. Based on Chinese models (including the adoption ...
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  • was a great patron of the Buddhist faith; Buddhism spread to Central Asia and ... In Gandhara, Mahayana Buddhism flourished and Buddha was represented ...
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  • Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism, among others. He is identified ... powerful empire under the influence of Buddhism with some Manichaean shrines ...
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  • as well as spiritual heritage in Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. ... Jiangxi was outside the sphere of influence of early Chinese civilization ...
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  • Chinese mythology starts with Pangu, the creator of the universe, ... It was during this period that Chinese civilization developed a ruling ...
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  • Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei ...
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  • clearly explicated by Tansen Sen, in his Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The ... blamed for the eventual destruction of Buddhism. Victor H. Mair has explained ...
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  • interconnected as early as 5000 B.C.E. Chinese merchants colonized the ... Buddhism constituted the dominant religion, followed by Islam, and ...
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  • from the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally containing aspects ... In Chan (Zen) Buddhism, a koan is a succinct paradoxical statement ...
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  • Tao or Dao (道, Pinyin: Dào, Cantonese: Dou) is a Chinese character ... cosmology became a distinctive feature of Chinese philosophy, one which was ...
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  • and Korea. Its relics can still be seen in Chinese cities such as Xi'an. ... 635, and its relics can still be seen in Chinese cities such as Xi'an ...
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  • goods from India and import of 15 from the Chinese side. The opening also shortens ... when the Tibetan government expelled the Chinese living there, most of the ...
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  • lifetime, he is the founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist ... Lotus Sutra was the only correct form of Buddhism for the present time period ...
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  • Journey to the West (Traditional Chinese: 西遊記; Simplified Chinese: ... allegory, the story is steeped in Chinese folk religion and Buddhist ...
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  • into one of the largest sects of Chinese Buddhism. The teachers claiming ... defining figure of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. Many well known Ch ...
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  • , also known as Jin Kui (金喟), was a Chinese literary theorist, writer ... a great interest in the ideas of Chan Buddhism. He claimed that this interest ...
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  • Tengri is a probable precursor of the Chinese deity Tian, which became ... Tengri first appeared in Chinese records referring to the Xiongnu ...
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  • Practical Philosophy of Primitive (Early) Buddhism. He also taught at Otani ... and Naraka (hell). Ningen consists of two Chinese characters, nin and gen ...
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  • 23, 1873 – January 19, 1929) was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher ... influenced an entire generation of Chinese young people. Liang returned ...
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  • of great importance in Tibetan Buddhism, whose incumbent is considered ... compassion. All four schools of Tibetan Buddhism respect the Dalai Lama, ...
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  • === Buddhism === * The Dharmachakra, a Buddhist symbol, has eight spokes ... * In Mahayana Buddhism, the branches of the Eightfold Path are embodied ...
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  • crucial role Kandy played in spreading Buddhism throughout Sri Lanka. The ... Kandy directly connect to the spread of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. ...
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  • had a profound impact upon Japanese Buddhism and art. In the same way ... Baekje in 18 B.C.E. According to the Chinese record San Guo Zhi, during ...
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  • the members of the ethnic majority of Chinese people to this day still ... were established. The Han gave the Chinese a sense of unity and bequeathed ...
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  • He encouraged the participation of Han Chinese in government while pursuing ... age of five (six according to traditional Chinese age reckoning) in 1643, ...
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  • father, Charles Jones Soong, a wealthy Chinese Methodist, had studied in ... the Japanese. In 1943, she was the first Chinese national and the second ...
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  • #039;s ultimate meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example ... ," the Bodhisattva of Compassion in Chinese Buddhism). ...
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  • who wrote the most numerous books in Chinese characters. Although his ... Professor Peng Lin at Qinghua University, Beijing teaches the Chinese ...
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  • religion with the adoption of Theravada Buddhism. That eroded the Hindu idea ... principalities collectively known to the Chinese by the names Funan (modern ...
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  • of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 ... the name “Ashina,” first appeared in Chinese sources relatively late ...
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  • and stupas. The second-holiest tree of Buddhism, and the Anandabodhi Tree ... that miracle under the Gandamba tree. The Chinese pilgrim Hiouen Thsang (Xuanzang ...
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  • Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty ... Fu as one of the most humane and moral of Chinese poets; and indeed, Du Fu ...
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  • to a large extent inherited from China. Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and ... The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("hanja" in Korean ...
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  • Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ... made it to China to study classical Chinese Buddhism. Many consider him to ...
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  • is the ruler of Heaven (Tian) in Chinese mythology and is among the ... In addition to the myriad Chinese myths and popular tales that reference ...
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  • Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally ... state. Borrowing from the reforms of other Chinese states, Shang Yang enacted ...
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  • === Buddhism === *Important Buddhist rituals usually involve nine monks. ==As lucky or unlucky number, Chinese culture== Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ ...
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  • Among the Oirats' enemies were the Chinese Manchu dynasty and the neighboring ... The Oirats accepted Gelugpa Tibetan Buddhism in the sixteenth century ...
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  • and Heavenly Horse Tomb. The adoption of Buddhism by the Silla kings in 528 ... a uniquely Korean product and show little Chinese influence. The Silla crown ...
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  • for much of Christian culture in Chinese society today. Members of ... Xavier, however, died the same year on the Chinese island of Shangchuan, without ...
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  • Exorcizing demonic forces is central to native Chinese religious culture ... practices that have been influenced by Buddhism and Taoism. In contemporary ...
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  • Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which Sun ... (external) martial arts are linked with Buddhism and traditionally associated ...
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  • Tibet, many of the men practice Tibetan Buddhism in the monasteries of Karsha ... of the inhabitants practice Tibetan Buddhism, while the remainder declare ...
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  • differed from the detachment of typical Chinese and Japanese Buddhist poetry. ... the start of the Age of Mappō (1052), Buddhism was considered to be in ...
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  • under Kublai Khan to becoming a basically Chinese institution under his successors. achievement, including developmets in the Chinese novel and plays with increased ...
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  • including 'sumi-e', a style of Chinese and Japanese ink and wash ... East Asian calligraphy typically uses ink brushes to write Chinese ...
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  • , 709–785) was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor ... Yan’s artistic accomplishment in Chinese calligraphy parallels the ...
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  • For many centuries, Theravada Buddhism has been the predominant religion ... accounts situate the origins of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka circa 200 B ...
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  • drawing elements from the religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Bon, and various ... for use within the practice of Tibetan Buddhism and, despite the existence ...
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  • used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen ... Around the tenth century, four Chinese monks were invited to teach ...
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  • had come under the influence of Mahayana Buddhism from Bihar and Bengal. By ... and introduced Mon culture and Theravada Buddhism. They initiated the construction ...
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  • record of the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Today, the Institute of ... the time of the second transmission of Buddhism to Tibet (marked by the ...
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  • Furthermore, one of the key doctrines of Buddhism is Anatta, meaning "not ... the Dao De Jing, the source book of the Chinese Daoist tradition, asserts ...
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  • leaders of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Chinese philosophy ... of the distinguished Bhikkhuni of early Buddhism are recorded in many places ...
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  • administrators, began calling himself the Chinese title of "wang" ... into the Liaodong Peninsula, the last Chinese commandery at Lelang was ...
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  • Historically Shanxi has been a center for Buddhism and Daoism; a multitude ... battlefield between the Japanese and the Chinese communist guerrillas of ...
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  • worshiped in Tantrism or Vajrayana Buddhism. Originally a Hindu goddess ... Within Tibetan Buddhism Tārā is regarded as a Buddha of compassion ...
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  • wǔshī) is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers ... The lion dance continues to be an important part of Chinese culture ...
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  • abound in the mythologies of Hinduism and Buddhism. Although these creatures ... of the ocean. Similarly, followers of the Chinese Hua-Yen tradition believe ...
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  • Finally, the text has also been shown to have influenced Chinese Buddhism ... partly forgotten due to the rise of Chinese Buddhism during the Tang dynasty ...
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  • philosophy developed, the influence of Buddhism, which had guided the former ... adopt Zhu Xi’s philosophy. Zhu Xi was a Chinese philosopher of the Southern ...
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  • seized the throne (the first and only Chinese Empress to rule in her own ... regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to ...
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  • emerged as a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, introducing significant ... and gaining proficiency to read such Chinese classics as The Romance ...
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  • it was a magnet for migration of Han Chinese from the north, who cleared ... Hunan was left relatively unscathed by the Chinese civil war that followed ...
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  • 1722. He is known as one of the greatest Chinese emperors in history. His ... falling back on the concept that all non Chinese are barbarians. He consolidated ...
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  • Saimdang's father taught her the Chinese classics and gave her ... Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History (Berkeley, CA: University ...
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  • Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe that the Yao became ... separated from the Miao. Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe ...
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  • Pǔyí (Traditional Chinese: 溥儀; Simplified Chinese: 溥仪) ... Gardens, before becoming a member of the Chinese People's Political ...
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  • Yongle is considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors. His economic, ... Zhu Di (Chu Ti)'s father, the Hongwu (Hung-wu; Chinese: 洪武帝; ...
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  • of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, and Ancient Judaism. ... Weber focused on those aspects of Chinese society that were different ...
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  • is also found in the Philippines). The Chinese would also sometimes spread ... Buddhism also has an ancient talismanic tradition. In the earliest ...
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  • It is also a central concept in Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism and has ... It is also a central concept in Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism and has ...
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  • folk and aristocratic art forms, including Chinese acrobatics, dengaku, and ... and are intended to illustrate the principles of Buddhism. ...
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  • of religion, Chandragupta II supported Buddhism during the time of Buddhism ... Faxian (Fa-shien) had been the first of three great Chinese pilgrims ...
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  • (the same character is used for the Chinese word Dao). As such, Shinto ... === Shinto and Buddhism === In 538 C.E. Buddhism was introduced into ...
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  • elements of Shamanism, Confucianism and Buddhism. The early Shamanist Koreans ... still conducting their written work in Chinese, the early Catholics used ...
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  • diverged from the ancestors of the Han Chinese about 5,000–6,000 years ... China to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu or Chinese nation, although in anthropological ...
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