Actually, Zen owes more to Chinese Quietism than it does to Mahayana Buddhism.

These latter two became the determining forces of Chinese thought until the introduction of Buddhism.

Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.

In modern ( State controlled ) Chinese Buddhism, all doctrinal traditions are regarded as equally valid.

The Six Dynasties era saw the rise of the Xuanxue philosophical school and the maturation of Chinese Buddhism, which had entered China from India during the Late Han Dynasties.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty five-hundred years after Buddhisms arrival into China, it had transformed into a thoroughly Chinese religious philosophy dominated by the school of Zen Buddhism.

These latter two became the determining forces of Chinese thought until the introduction of Buddhism.

Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.

Chinese Buddhism and part of Korean Buddhism strictly adhere to vegetarianism.

The text is fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism ( Daojia,, Pinyin: Dàojiā ; Daojiao,, Pinyin: Dàojiào ) and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism, Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Daoist words and concepts.

The Chinese term " de " or " virtue " is reserved for what might otherwise be termed " good karma " in Buddhism.

This text and its thirty-three manifestations of Guanyin, of which seven are female manifestations, is known to have been very popular in Chinese Buddhism as early as in the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty.

In Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin is synonymous with the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.

* Kuan Ming: Popular Deities of Chinese Buddhism, Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc, 1985

* Miao Yun: Teachings in Chinese Buddhism: Selected Translation of Miao Yun, Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc, 1995

* Sinicization of Buddhism-White Robe Guan Yin-explanation of how Avalokiteshvara transformed into Guan Yin in Chinese Buddhism

Later in Chinese Buddhism, the term Ai ( 愛 ) was adopted to refer to a passionate caring love and was considered a fundamental desire.

This process continued in Manichaeism's meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example, the original Aramaic karia ( the " call " from the world of Light to those seeking rescue from the world of Darkness ), becomes identified in the Chinese scriptures with Guan Yin ( or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit, literally, " watching / perceiving sounds the world ", the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion ).

The Han dynasty that followed adopted Confucianism as the official state philosophy, as did most other successive dynasties, though Daoism and later Buddhism also played an important part in later Chinese life and thought, while Mohism all but disappeared as a separate school of thought.

New Age practices and philosophies sometimes draw inspiration from major world religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam ( especially Sufism ), Judaism ( especially Kabbalah ), Sikhism ; with strong influences from East Asian religions, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Thought, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Universalism and Western esotericism.

In Chinese Buddhism, predestination is a translation of yuanfen, which does not necessarily imply the existence or involvement of a deity.

The five largest religious groups by population, estimated to account for between 5 and 7 billion people, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism ) and Chinese folk religion.

But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

Among the several other artefacts in its collection, the museum possesses the Escudela de Pero de Faria, a unique piece of Chinese porcelain from 1541.

Official Chinese sources emphasize the mundane aspects of Li's life as an army grain clerk and trumpet player, while Li's spiritual biographies assert that he was trained by a Buddhist and Taoist masters from childhood and possesses extraordinary powers.

Indeed Mandarin Chinese also possesses some words of Austroasiatic origin such as the original name of the Yangtze river 江 jiāng ( Old Chinese * krung compared to Old Vietnamese * krong ) which has evolved into the word for river.

Chinese discussion of Wenzhounese often mentions the strong Tai affinities the dialect possesses.

The library possesses around 50, 000 books in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil ( plus a few in French, German, and other languages ), and around 40 computers with wireless internet access.

In addition, NENU possesses several national training programs and research institutes such as Preparatory School for Chinese Students to Japan ( PSCSJ ).

The university has a modern library which possesses a huge collection of Chinese and

His wife Enid ( Barbara Murray ) discovers a Chinese figurine that says it will grant three wishes to whoever possesses it ; Enid decides to wish for a fortune ; surprisingly, it comes true, however, Ralph is killed on the way to his lawyer's office to collect it.

The Chinese tradition of reading into words makes it easier for the government, or “ the father ,” who possesses more attention and respect, to pass down its wishes through songs.

The modern day Chinese marine possesses the Type 95 bullpup assault rifle as standard infantry armament.

* The Asia Library: The Asia Library was established in 1948, and it possesses one of the nation's foremost collections of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language resources.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

In the Chinese, Jewish, Thai and some Hindu calendars, the full moon always occurs in the middle of a month.

Ammianus and Jordanes mention the Huns as scarifying infants ' faces to prevent the later growth of beards ; the Chinese recorded General Ran Min having led a military campaign against a faction of the Xiongnu Confederation called the Jie, who were described as having full beards, around Ye in 349 AD.

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Some Buddhist Chinese keep a vegetarian diet on the new moon and full moon each month.

" The work itself is full of anachronistic mistakes and even includes a popular character from Chinese fiction, the " Bushy Bearded Hero " ( 虬髯客 ), as a lineage master.

However, the use of apostrophes preserves b, d, g, and j for the romanization of Chinese languages containing voiced consonants, such as Shanghainese ( which has a full set of voiced consonants ) and Min Nan ( Hō-ló-oē ) whose century-old Pe ̍ h-ōe-jī ( POJ, often called Missionary Romanization ) is similar to Wade – Giles.

In Asia, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration.

China and Russia engaged in a minor conflict after China seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway.

* Chinese Legislative Information Network System full text search of English translations of hundreds of PRC laws and regulations

The Chinese Orthodox Church and the Japanese Orthodox Churches were granted full autonomy by the Moscow Patriarchate, but this autonomy is not universally recognized.

One important constitutional principle which is stated in Article 8 of the Legislation Law of the People's Republic of China is that an action can become a crime only as a consequence of a law passed by the full NPC and that other organs of the Chinese government do not have the power to criminalize activity.

:" The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Daxia ) and Parthia ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hanshu, Former Han History ).

The Last Emperor became the first western film made in China and about the country to be produced with full Chinese government cooperation since 1949.

Some say that the Chinese Emperor Wu became interested in developing commercial relationships with the sophisticated urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthian Empire: " The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Ta-Hsia ) and Parthian Empire ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).

The Chinese government sought to exercise full control over frontier areas against the warlords.

In other words, on the 13th when your troops entered the city, we had nearly all the civilian population gathered in a Zone in which there had been very little destruction by stray shells and no looting by Chinese soldiers even in full retreat ... All 27 Occidentals in the city at that time and our Chinese population were totally surprised by the reign of robbery, raping and killing initiated by your soldiers on the 14th.

The Chinese government sought to exercise full control over frontier areas against the warlords.

< p > With full responsibility for my words, I am now compelled to say that the cruel massacre of the Chinese proletariat and the Chinese Revolution at its three most important turning points, the strengthening of the position of the trade union agents of British imperialism after the General Strike of 1926, and, finally, the general weakening of the position of the Communist International and the Soviet Union, the party owes principally and above all to Stalin.

Chinese nuns possess the full bhikkuni ordination, Tibetan nuns do not, and in Theravada countries female renunciates are discouraged from even wearing saffron robes.