What influence does Buddhism have on China's traditional culture?

1. Architecture and Buddhism have exerted great influence and function on China culture, leaving a splendid Buddhist cultural heritage in the history of China. Many Buddhist buildings have become prominent signs of landscape contours in various parts of China. It absorbed the characteristics of Gandhara and Indian, and developed into a sculpture art with China national style, which is a great cultural heritage of our country.

2. Literature and Buddhism have also brought new artistic conception, new style and new wording methods to China culture. Thousands of classics translated from Sanskrit are great and rich literary works in themselves. Fahua, Wei Dynasty and White influenced the novel creation in Jin and Tang Dynasties, while Prajna and Zen thought influenced the poetry creation of Wang Wei, Bai Juyi and Su Shi.

3. Painting and music. The touching stories in Buddhist scriptures often become the subject matter of artists' paintings. The Buddhist painting skills of Cao Buxing, Gu Kaizhi, Zhang Senbi, Zhan Ziqian, Yan and Wu Daozi have been passed down from generation to generation. As for music, Brahma was very popular in China in the 3rd century. Music in the Tang Dynasty absorbed music from Buddhist countries such as Tianzhu Music, Qiuci Music and Anguo Music.

4. Language and writing. In the history of China, the relationship between Buddhism and culture is so deep that you can't understand China culture without understanding Buddhism. For example, for Xuanzang, a great translator, traveler, linguist and master of Buddhism in the history of China, a large number of Chinese words in China, such as world, truth, reality, equality, present, moment, discipline, relative, absolute, consciousness, consciousness and sudden, all come from Buddhist words.

5. Philosophy, Buddhist philosophy contains profound wisdom. The interaction between Buddhism and China's classical philosophy promoted philosophy to put forward new propositions and methods. Buddhism has profound and unique views on the life of the universe, the introspection of human reason and the analysis of concepts.

In the outlook on life, Buddhism emphasizes the subjective consciousness and links its own liberation with the salvation of mankind. With its unique way of thinking and life style, it gives new enlightenment to people's spiritual life in China traditional society.

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