The New Encyclopædia Britannica: In 32 Volumes. A-ak - Bayes, Volume 1Philip W. Goetz, Dale H. Hoiberg, Robert MacHenry Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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... China and that Buddhism reached the country around the beginning of the 1st millennium AD , brought by missionaries traveling between India and the Chinese empire . The northern part of what is now Vietnam had been conquered by the Chinese ...
... China and that Buddhism reached the country around the beginning of the 1st millennium AD , brought by missionaries traveling between India and the Chinese empire . The northern part of what is now Vietnam had been conquered by the Chinese ...
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... China , monastic establish- ments were proliferating , and Buddhism was becoming well - established among the peasantry . Thus , it is not sur- prising that , when the Sui dynasty ( 581-618 ) established its rule over a reunified China ...
... China , monastic establish- ments were proliferating , and Buddhism was becoming well - established among the peasantry . Thus , it is not sur- prising that , when the Sui dynasty ( 581-618 ) established its rule over a reunified China ...
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... China from India by Kumārajīva , a missionary translator of Indian - Kuchan parentage , in the 5th century . Three of the texts that he translated from Sanskrit into Chinese- the Madhyamika Kārikā and the Dvādaśamukha - śāstra or ...
... China from India by Kumārajīva , a missionary translator of Indian - Kuchan parentage , in the 5th century . Three of the texts that he translated from Sanskrit into Chinese- the Madhyamika Kārikā and the Dvādaśamukha - śāstra or ...
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