Chinese Buddhism

Author: Ling Haicheng
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Publishing Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Buddhism is a worldwide religion. It originated in India and has developed in China. Of the three major schools of Buddhism, namely, Pali Buddhism, Han Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism, the latter two originated in China. China is the only country in the world where the three major schools of Buddhism co-exist, hence the name "the second home to Buddhism." Now the three major schools of Buddhism are found in many parts of the world. Buddhism believers of different skin colors, different nationalities, different ethnicities, and different languages all regard China as the ancestral hall of Buddhism. Many of them travel a long way to China to pay homage to the ancestral hall of the Chan sect of Buddhism, the ancestral hall of the Pure Land sect of Buddhism, the ancestral hall of the Sakyapa, and the ancestral hall of the Bka'brgyudpa sect.