What kinds of Buddhism are there in China?

Southern Buddhism 1. Mainly spread in Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and other places. Yunnan, China. Modern Southern Buddhism in China is mainly distributed in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Simao, Lincang and Baoshan. Most of the Dai, Bulang, Achang and Wa people believe in Southern Buddhism. See Dai Buddhism.

2. Buddhism spread in Han Dynasty, mainly in China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Vietnam. Buddhism spread to the north by land and sea.

3. Tibetan Buddhism is mainly popular in Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other provinces, and is widely believed by Tibetans, Mongolians, Yugurs, Menba, Lhoba and Tus.

After Buddhism was introduced into China, there was no difference in the size of the scriptures at first, and there was no difference in the establishment. Formed 13 schools: Legalist, Shicheng, Jia She, Sanlun, Prajna, Land Theory, Zen, Shelun, Tiantai, Jing Zong, Wei Zhi, Huayan and Tantric.

Extended information literature

Buddhism has 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.

A?vagho?a's Ode to the Zen Forest brings a model of long narrative poems; Fahua, the late Wei Dynasty and White were the sources of inspiration for novels in Jin and Tang Dynasties. Prajna and Zen thought influenced the poems of Wang Wei, Bai Juyi and Su Shi. Bianwen, folk stories and Jackson's quotations all have a deep relationship with Chinese popular literature.

Painting and music

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. The development of Chinese painting from Wang Wei's literati painting to popular freehand brushwork painting after Song and Yuan Dynasties is related to Zen thought.

This shows the role of Buddhism in the art of painting. As for music, Brahma was very popular in China in the 3rd century. The music of the Tang Dynasty also absorbed the music of Buddhist countries such as Tianzhu Music, Qiuci Music and Anguo Music, and a small part of the music of the Tang Dynasty was preserved in some Buddhist temples.

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