Of the top five religions, Buddhism, the most influential, has a history of 2,000 years in China. Taoism, native to the country, has a history of more than 1,700 years. Islam was introduced to ...

The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

eventually, a CCP-approved Dalai Lama. Chinese Theravada Buddhism is in no position to serve as a tool of soft power for the state.

To this day the philosophies of Laozi and Confucius, and the religious movements their lives and teachings inspired, exist in vibrant forms in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese culture as well ...

The Chinese government supports the participation of the Chinese Buddhist community in global religious and cultural dialogues, as well as friendly exchanges with Buddhist communities in other ...

By this definition, "popular religion," a syncretic blend of Daoism, Buddhism, and polytheistic elements, that attracts the vast majority of Chinese believers is not a religion at all, and ...

The global promotion of Buddhism as a form of soft power by the Chinese state is unprecedented in the modern world. Recent ...

The circumstances under which the religion of Buddha was introduced ... the introduction into China of Buddhist teachers by the Emperor Mingti in the year 65 A.D. has a perfeet right to claim ...

Zu, Jessica 2022. Three plays and a shared socio-spiritual horizon in the modern Buddhist revivals in India and China. International Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 19, Issue. 2, p. 215. This volume ...

Amanda Foreman discusses the origins and development of Buddhism in China, with particular reference ... in a lesson on imagery in Buddhism or religion in general. Whilst watching, students ...