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Parth Saxena

The Story of Chinese Buddhism: How an Indian Religion Became Chinese

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Religious Philosophies and ConceptsEastern Traditional Wisdom

This essay will examine and discuss how and why Buddhism in the Chinese religious tradition has grown from a purely Indian import to a distinctly Chinese enterprise. In so examining and discussing, previously held beliefs about these two questions – how and why Buddhism in China became a distinctly Chinese religion – will be evinced and refuted with the application of modern scholarship on early Chinese Buddhism...

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