According to records, Lu Jing, a doctoral disciple of Emperor Aidi of Han Dynasty, was sent to Dayue's home in the first year of Yuanshou (the first two years), and his king made the population award the Fautu Sutra.
In the 10th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (67 years), Emperor Hanming dreamed of the Golden Man, so he sent people to the western regions to meet Kayamoton and Zhu Falan, two eminent monks, and brought many Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures back to Luoyang with white horses. The emperor ordered people to build houses for them to live in and translated 42 chapters of classics. Which is now the White Horse Temple.
Therefore, in the history of Buddhism in China, the decade of Han Yongping is often regarded as the year when Buddhism was introduced. White Horse Temple became the first Buddhist temple in China. Forty-two Chapters also became the first Chinese translation of Buddhist scriptures in China. In 147, An Shigao, a lazy man, went to the Han Dynasty to preach and translate the scriptures. In 167, Zhilou Jiayi went to the Han Dynasty to preach and translate the scriptures.
Sui and Tang Dynasties entered its heyday, and many sects with China national characteristics were formed. After the Song Dynasty, various schools of Buddhism tended to merge, and the contradiction between Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism gradually disappeared.
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1.7-8th century Buddhism was introduced into China, western China and Tibet from Indian and China Han areas respectively. After the middle of the 10 century, Tibetan Buddhism came into being, and then spread to Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Mongolia and Buryat Mongolia in Russia.
At the end of the 2nd century, Buddhism was introduced into Viet Nam from China. It spread widely in the 4th-5th century. From 10 to14th century, Vietnamese Buddhism entered a period of prosperity. Buddhism in Thailand and Myanmar also influenced Buddhism in Vietnam.
Buddhism was introduced into Koguryo, Korea from China in the second half of the 4th century. After the Silla Dynasty unified the Korean Peninsula in the 7th century, Huayan Sect, Faxiang Sect, Legalism Sect and Zen Sect, which were introduced from China, were very popular, especially after that. Xiaosan was published at the end of 14. Although the Li Dynasty adopted the policy of rejecting Buddhism and worshiping Confucianism in the14th century, Korean Buddhism developed, and began to decline after the middle of the17th century, and revived in modern times.
Buddhism was introduced to Japan from China through Korea in the 6th century, and has been the main religion in Japan ever since. At the beginning of the 7th century, Shoto Kutaishi required all his subjects to "convert to the Three Treasures" in the Seventeenth Constitution.
Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties in China, Japan and Japan have sent a large number of monks to study in China, and the main sects of Buddhism in China have been introduced to Japan. /kloc-after the 0/2 century, Japanese Buddhism formed many nationalized sects.