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| | Buddhism in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Buddhism is a very important religion in China and one of the three major schools of thought along with Confucianism and Taoism. | | | Buddhism was less antithetical to Daoism, the other major religion of China, but at its core Daoism sought harmony with the natural world while Buddhism sought to master the inner world. | | | The year 67 saw Buddhism's official introduction to China with the coming of the two monks Moton and Chufarlan. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Buddhism
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| | Online edition of Daily News - Features |
| | Among the religions in China, Buddhism is the largest. | | | The main religions in China are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism. | | | Of all the translators in the history of Chinese Buddhism, the monk Xuan Zang of the Tang Dynasty is considered the greatest. |
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http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/10/06/fea02.html
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| | Rel Note: Chinese Buddhism |
| | Devotional Buddhism (worship of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas as divine saviors) is carried out in temples and administered by priests. | | | Chinese Buddhism conflates Buddhism with Taoism, fusing into one the Indian concern with liberation of the self and Chinese focus on nature. | | | Chinese Buddhism keeps everything of significance that is most characteristic of Taoism, only the place of the Tao is occupied by the Buddha. |
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http://www.albany.edu/faculty/lr618/chbud.html
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| | Buddhism and Its Spread Along the Silk Road |
| | Persecution of Buddhism in Gupta empire by the invading Hephthalites | | | As Buddhism advanced towards the Tarim basin, Kashgaria with Yarkand and Khotan in the west, Tumsuk, Aksu and Kizil in the north, Loulan, Karasahr and Dunhuang in the east, and Miran and Cherchen in the south became important centers of Buddhist art and thought. | | | Parthian's Buddhist faith was also confirmed by the Chinese records of the missions of the Parthian Buddhist preachers, An-Shih-Kao and An Hsuan during the 2nd century. |
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http://www.silk-road.com/artl/buddhism.shtml
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| | Chinese Buddhism |
| | Buddhism entered China a few centuries after the passing away of the Buddha, at a time when Confucianism and Taoism were the predominant religions in a country that was as a big as a continent and rivaled India in historical antiquity and cultural pluralism. | | | It was founded by a Chinese monk by name Chih-i (538-597) who lived in Chekiang province of China, and formed his doctrines on the basis of the Saddharma-pundarika sutra, an ancient Buddhist text, which he believed to be the vehicle of all other truths. | | | Chan Buddhism did not place too much emphasis on meditation, unlike the Zen Buddhism of Japan, but on finding the Buddha mind in the most mundane tasks and conversations of day to day life. |
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http://www.hinduwebsite.com/buddhism/chinese_buddhism.htm
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| | Chinese Buddhism |
| | Chinese Buddhism is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness. | | | Chinese Buddhism: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary on Treatise on the Discipline for Attaining Enlightenment | | | The history of Buddhism spans from the 6th century BCE to the present, starting with the birth of the Buddha Siddharta Gautama. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/chinese_buddhism
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: Philosophy and Religion in China |
| | Zen (Ch'an in Chinese) is a Japanese term meaning "meditation." It is a major school of Japanese Buddhism that claims to transmit the spirit of Buddhism, or the total enlightenment as achieved by the founder of the religion, the Buddha (See Buddha; Buddhism). | | | Hinayana remained closer to the original Buddhism and is still the religion of the Southeast Asian countries. | | | Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, a prince of the Sakya kingdom on the borders of what are now India and Nepal and a contemporary of Confucius. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinrelg.html
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| | 20th WCP: Comparative studies for philosophy of Life of Christianity and Chinese Buddhism |
| | Both Chinese Buddhism and Western Christianity are religion, but in the realm of thoughts and culture, they are important symbols of Oriental and Western culture. | | | Both in Christianity and Buddhism, the final goal of life directs at the eternal happiness after man's death (in Buddhism, it means being free from samsara ; in Christianity, it means returning to paradise). | | | There are many differences between Christianity and Buddhism, for instance: Christianity believes in that all things are created by God, while Buddhism denies the existence of the Creator ; Christianity holds that salvation will be obtained by faith, while Buddhism advocates to be free from world by wisdom. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Comp/CompHong.htm
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: Peter N. Gregory: DOCTRINAL CLASSIFICATION |
| | Chinese Buddhists were, as their Indian counterparts were not, called on to make sense out of Buddhism as a totality. | | | Many of the aspects of the new religion that the Chinese found most objectionable were more a reflection of the general Indian world-view of which Buddhism was a part than particular teachings and practices specific to Buddhism among the religious traditions of India. | | | While the objections that Chinese Buddhists had to address in justifying their existence as a distinct group within Chinese society were not, strictly speaking, part of the hermeneutical problem of correctly interpreting the Buddha's teachings, they nevertheless formed the background against which Chinese Buddhists addressed the problem. |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/doctrina.html
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| | Chinese Religion - Buddhism (www.chinaknowledge.org) |
| | A central deity in Jingtu Buddhism is the Guanyin (jap.: Kan'on) Bodhisattva, the Chinese form of the Avalokiteshvara. | | | The Non-Chinese rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty converted to Buddhism and saw themselves as personification of the Buddha. | | | Only known in Tibetian Buddhism are the prayer mill, prayer flag, while prayer rosaries are also known to Chinese Buddhism. |
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http://www.chinaknowledge.org/Literature/Religion/buddhism.html
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| | Crossing the Gate of Death in Chinese Buddhist Culture |
| | In Buddhism it is taught that all sounds constitute the speech of the Buddha. | | | Upon closer examination, many Chinese Buddhists, in the sense that they are considered by others as well as by themselves to be followers of the Buddhist religion, practice a mixture of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. | | | Rituals and activities related to death are adopted by Chinese Buddhists according to their belief, the instructions they seek from Buddhist teachers, and the tradition they live in. |
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http://www.yogichen.org/efiles/mbk16.html#2
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| | Major Sects in Chinese Buddhism |
| | This school was a true representation of Vajrayana Buddhism. | | | Prior to Hui-yuan (334-416) this was a optional practice within Buddhism. | | | The school's name is a Chinese rendering of the Sanskrit term dharma-laksana which means "marks of the dharmas." It is based on the writings of Asanga and Vasubandhu and corresponds to the Yogacara school of India. |
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http://www.hsuyun.com/majorsects.html
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| | Buddha: A History of Chinese Buddhism |
| | Chinese Buddhism by itself will be a task enough to cover, even when limited ourselves to the period of roughly 1 CE to 1000 CE. | | | This section of the Gateless Passage is a presentation of the history of Buddhism in China, that by neccesity is interwoven with a general summary of Chinese history. | | | At the same time, Buddhism was adopted and promoted by many of the occupying dynasties in the North, where it eventually would achieve a popularity nearing the status of a state religion. |
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http://villa.lakes.com/cdpatton/Buddha
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Chinese Buddhism |
| | He's the founder of Chan Buddhism, and his understanding of Buddhism is so great that he didn't need to recite Buddha& names or sutras, he just mediate for years and years. | | | Buddhism :: t-shirts :: Zodiac Gifts :: Cat T-shirts & Cat T-shirt :: Buddha t-shirts & Buddha T-shirt :: Free Tibet T-shirts :: Year Of The Rooster T-shirts :: | | | The Pure Land school is perhaps the oldest of the Chinese Buddhist sects. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t3137.html
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| | Emptiness and the Institutional Suicide of Chinese Buddhism |
| | Of course internal causes of the demise of Buddhism in China were not restricted to the conceptual realm. | | | Theravada Buddhism seems to have more staying power, as it continues to be a vigorous part of the national life in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, but for some reason Mahayana is dead or nearly dead throughout Asia. | | | It is in this sense that I speak of the institutional suicide of Chinese Buddhism. |
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| | Chinese Buddhism on the Silk Road |
| | The character of Chinese Buddhism of the period is reflected in these Dunhuang manuscripts. | | | During the Sui dynasty (581-618) Buddhism flourished as the state religion, and continued to flourish in the Tang dynasty (618-907) until a great persecution was carried out by the emperor in 845. | | | Buddhist missionaries were at work in China, translating Buddhist Shravakayana texts into Chinese, from the middle of the first century CE onwards. |
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http://idp.bl.uk/chapters/topics/buddhism/chinese/chinese.html
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| | Chinese Journal Analyzes Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Chinese Community - www.phayul.com |
| | The politically motivated official position that Tibetan culture was backward is being challenged by the growing appreciation among ordinary Chinese of the deeper aspect of Tibetan Buddhism and the positive role that it is playing in the development of the society. | | | Chinese Journal Analyzes Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Chinese Community - www.phayul.com | | | Historically, too, several communities in China have found spiritual solace in Tibetan Buddhism. |
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http://www.phayul.com/news/article.asp?id=4410
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| | Major Religions Ranked by Size |
| | But "Chinese traditional religion" is meant to categorize the common religion of the majority Chinese culture: a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, as well as the traditional non-scriptural/local practices and beliefs. | | | In comparative religion texts Confucianism, Taoism and Chinese Buddhism are sometimes addressed in three separate chapters, and sometimes treated in one chapter as "Chinese religion." Even today there are very valid reasons for distinguishing Taoism from Confucianism, and distinguishing both from Chinese Buddhism and non-scriptural Chinese folk religion. | | | Buddhism, for example, if viewed as a whole, can be understood to have a large amount of internal variation, including the Theravada and Mahayana branches, all of their sub-schools, various revivalist sects, as well as Tibetan and modern Western forms. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
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| | Nara Buddhism |
| | Nevertheless, the earliest stages of Nara Buddhism were dominated by Korean and Chinese monks and priests. | | | For Buddhism was the religion of the civilized west and Japan had just begun actively importing the culture of China and Korea. | | | Each of these schools, like all Chinese Buddhism, were branches of Mahayana Buddhism which had arisen in India in the second century AD. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/NARABUDD.HTM
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| | Chinese Buddhism |
| | It isn’t so much that it overshadowed Buddhism philosophically, though it did, but that historians at this time were strictly Confucian, which led to discounting and under representing Buddhist presence in Chinese society. | | | Though this may be the first accurate record of Buddhist communication with Chinese society, it was only the beginning of the greater transmission that came more pronounced in the coming centuries. | | | It is stated by one Yu Huan, in a work called A Brief Account of the Wei Dynasty, that a Chinese ambassador received the transmission of Buddha& teachings in the 2nd century BC from Bactria, a Greco-Indian Buddhist kingdom north of modern day India. |
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http://www.msu.edu/~lapp/UBTweb/chinesebuddhism.html
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| | Resources for the Study of Buddhism |
| | Resources for the Study of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism | | | Lectures on Buddhism by Professor Peter Friedlander of Latrobe University. | | | This is one of the most comprehensive sources for information on Buddhism on the Internet. |
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http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Buddhism.htm
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| | CHINA BOOKS: *Philosophy/Religion: Chinese Buddhism |
| | Buddhism in Taiwan is the first work in a Western language to examine the institutional and political history of Chinese Buddhism in Taiwan. | | | In spite of the common view of Buddhism as nondogmatic and tolerant, the historical record preserves many examples of Buddhist thinkers and movements that were banned as heretical or subversive. | | | By viewing San-chieh in the context of Mahayana Buddhism, Hubbard reveals it to be far from heretical and thereby raises important questions about orthodoxy and canon in Buddhism. |
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http://www.chinabooks.com.au/generalcatalogue/philosbudd.htm
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| | Kieschnick, J.: The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. |
| | Long after Buddhism ceased to be a major force in India, it continued to influence the development of material culture in China, as it does to the present day. | | | This wide-ranging study shows that Buddhism brought with it a vast array of objects big and small--relics treasured as parts of the body of the Buddha, prayer beads, and monastic clothing--as well as new ideas about what objects could do and how they should be treated. | | | From the first century, when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion shaped Chinese philosophy, beliefs, and ritual. |
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http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7539.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Buddhism in China |
| | THE study of Buddhism in China is of importance to the world because of its influence on the Chinese way of life throughout history. | | | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism > Buddha | | | This book will be of interest to anyone who would like to learn how buddhism developed in China and how it both influenced and received the influence of the other important Chinese philosophies, especially Daoism and Confucianism. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691000158?v=glance
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| | Chinese Culture: Texts |
| | Chinese Doctrinal Buddhism, a modern essay on the nature of Chinese Buddhism. | | | In Defense of Buddhism: The Disposition of Error (c. | | | Opposition to Buddhism: Han Yu: Memorial on Buddhism (819 CE), from Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Travels in T'ang China, (New York: Ronald Press, 1955), pp. |
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| | Han Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Predominantly Confucianism, Taoism, Mahayana Buddhism, Traditional Chinese religion. | | | In fact, the term survives in most Chinese references to Chinatown, known as 唐人街 ("Street of Tang People"). | | | Despite the existence of many varied and diverse Chinese spoken languages, one factor in Han ethnic unity is the Chinese written language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Chinese
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| | Chinese Buddhism |
| | This work is not only an important contribution to Buddhalogical studies of Chinese Buddhism but also a sublime demonstration of a major approach to the scientific reading of historic texts. | | | This first translation of the earliest Chinese Buddhist text, does more than translate. | | | As an historical method Keenan applies it to his translation and commentary, having us enter into the cultural assumptions of the Buddhist missionary and the classical Chinese response. |
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http://www.wordtrade.com/religion/buddhism/chinesebudR.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Buddhism |
| | Kamat's Potpourri on Buddhism - Wide ranging topics from a biography of Buddha to Tibetan Buddhist refugees in India. | | | Family Dharma Connections - Devoted to Buddhist families with children and others interested in sharing Dharma and Buddhism with children. | | | Individual Answers to Your Questions About Buddhism - Confidential answers to your questions by the volunteer members of Allexperts.com. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Buddhism
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| | Buddhist Yogi C. M. Chen's Homepage |
| | Polish translation of some of the works posted in English, including a book on Meditation: A Golden Ring, and a book on comparison of Buddhism and Christianity: Crossing the Threshold of Liberation. | | | English and Chinese Buddhist books currently available for free distribution(Last updated October 7, 2004 for adding new books to the list.) | | | This is an independent website dedicated to the teachings of the late Yogi C. Chen (1906-1987) and his disciple Dr. Yutang Lin in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism |
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| | Moksha Journal - Chinese Buddhism and Derridean Deconstruction, by Robert Magliola |
| | Their obsession is of special interest to us, of course, because Buddhism is the world's specialist in desire. | | | For Chinese texts accompanied by Chinese and Japanese commentaries, again see Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. | | | Moksha Journal - Chinese Buddhism and Derridean Deconstruction, by Robert Magliola |
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http://www.santosha.com/moksha/deconstruction1.html
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| | Chinese Religions links |
| | Pictures from The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900-1950, by Holmes Welch | | | Paper abstracts: Conference on the Study of Chinese Buddhism (Hsi Lai Temple, June 2005) | | | Bibliography of Western Language Publications on Chinese Popular Religion (1995 to present), by Philip Clart |
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http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/LINKS270.htm
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| | The Gateless Passage Home page |
| | The Gateless Passage is the Buddhist eJournal / home page published by myself, Charles Patton (Upasaka Fa-men). | | | I originally created it in 1998 simply to share my own independent research and translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon. | | | It will further the cause of getting Chinese Buddhist texts rendered into English and available to the public online. |
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| | Syllabus for Phil 210 |
| | Because Neo-Confucianism draws heavily on Buddhist metaphysical ideas, we shall also briefly discuss Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. | | | Readings: B.W. Van Norden, "Opposition in Chinese Thought" (follow the link on the left), and Chan, A Source Book, ch. | | | (You may also read my Lecture Notes on Early Buddhism and my Glossary of Buddhist Terms.) |
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http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/Phil210
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| | Chinese Buddhism |
| | The appearance of Kumarajiva as translator in the Imperial court in 401 CE was a great boost to Buddhism in China. | | | Despite such influences, and its Indian roots, Buddhism in China borrowed from Daoism to achieve a unique nature. | | | This helped explain their popularity with barbarian invaders. |
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http://www.xmission.com/~bob/lote13/Nations/ChinBuddhism.html
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| | Chinese Religions Resources |
| | The Gateless Passage: translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon | | | Center for Buddhist Studies, Taiwan National University (full text articles in English) |
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http://www.uwec.edu/greider/Chinese.Japan/Resource.Chinese.htm
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| | Spiritual Traditions of China |
| | Non-Buddhist Text Translation Society References for Buddhism A to Z | | | General Information on China and Chinese Philosophy and Religion | | | Excerpts from the I Ching or Book of Changes: Ch'ien and K'un |
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http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/China/spiritualchina.html#ChineseBuddhism
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