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... Buddhism . This period was the Buddhist age of China . Several factors contributed to the extraordinary expan- sion and absorption of the foreign religion after about 300 , both in the Chinese South and in the occupied North . A ...
... Buddhism . This period was the Buddhist age of China . Several factors contributed to the extraordinary expan- sion and absorption of the foreign religion after about 300 , both in the Chinese South and in the occupied North . A ...
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... Buddhist thought in China . Buddhist philosophy . The development of Buddhist thought in China went through three stages . Early Buddhist movements . In the first of these stages ( 3rd and 4th centuries AD ) , Neo - Taoism had a direct ...
... Buddhist thought in China . Buddhist philosophy . The development of Buddhist thought in China went through three stages . Early Buddhist movements . In the first of these stages ( 3rd and 4th centuries AD ) , Neo - Taoism had a direct ...
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... Buddhist missionaries and their con- verts laboured to translate the sūtras ( Buddhist scrip- tures ) and to establish monastic centres . Gradually more Chinese embraced the new Way , either by entering the Sangha ( Buddhist order ) or ...
... Buddhist missionaries and their con- verts laboured to translate the sūtras ( Buddhist scrip- tures ) and to establish monastic centres . Gradually more Chinese embraced the new Way , either by entering the Sangha ( Buddhist order ) or ...
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