The Buddhism transmitted to China is based on the Sarvastivada school, with translations from Sanskrit to the Chinese languages and Tibetic languages. Northern transmission (from North India and Central Asia) As of 2019, China by far had the largest population of Buddhists in the world at nearly 250 million Thailand comes second at around 70 million (see Buddhism by country). ![]() The other khanates, the Ilkhanate, Chagatai Khanate, and Golden Horde eventually converted to Islam ( Religion in the Mongol Empire#Islam).Ĭhinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese and Southeast Asian traditions of Buddhism continued. They embraced Tibetan Buddhism starting with the Yuan dynasty ( Buddhism in Mongolia). The Mongol Empire resulted in the further Islamization of Central Asia. The Western Liao was a Buddhist Sinitic dynasty based in Central Asia, before Mongol invasion of Central Asia. Tang-era Chinese Buddhism was briefly repressed in the 9th century (but made a comeback in later dynasties). Indian Buddhism declined due to the resurgence of Hinduism and the Muslim conquest of India. Battle of Talas), resulting in the Uyghur Khaganate by the 740s. īut from about this time, the Silk road trade of Buddhism began to decline with the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana (e.g. Tibetan Buddhism was likewise established as a branch of Vajrayana, in the 8th century. The Indian form of Buddhist tantra ( Vajrayana) reached China in the 7th century. Between the 3rd and 7th centuries, parts of the land route connecting northern India with China was ruled by the Xiongnu, Han dynasty, Kushan Empire, the Hephthalite Empire, the Göktürks, and the Tang dynasty. From the 4th century onward, Chinese pilgrims like Faxian (395–414) and later Xuanzang (629–644) started to travel to northern India in order to get improved access to original scriptures. Direct contact between Central Asian and Chinese Buddhism continued throughout the 3rd to 7th centuries, much into the Tang period. Meanwhile, Sarvastivada Buddhism was transmitted from North India through Central Asia to China. Theravada Buddhism developed from the Pāli Canon in Sri Lanka Tamrashatiya school and spread throughout Southeast Asia. ![]() These contacts transmitted strands of Sarvastivadan and Tamrashatiya Buddhism throughout the Eastern world. The first documented translation efforts by Buddhist monks in China were in the 2nd century CE via the Kushan Empire into the Chinese territory bordering the Tarim Basin under Kanishka. īuddhism entered Han China via the Silk Road, beginning in the 1st or 2nd century CE. 9) as ethnic Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people who inhabited Turfan as an ethnic minority community during the phases of Tang Chinese (7th–8th century) and Uyghur rule (9th–13th century). A fresco from the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, dated to the 9th century although Albert von Le Coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed, red-haired monk was a Tocharian, modern scholarship has identified similar Caucasian figures of the same cave temple (No. Blue-eyed Central Asian monk teaching East-Asian monk.
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