Buddhism in China
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It is difficult to state with certainty when Buddhism was first introduced into China. There are reports of Buddhists visiting China and some Chinese nobles performing Buddhist rite as early as 65 C.E. (Ch'en, 1972).A Buddhist monk, An Shih-kao, in Kusha (a kingdom in Central Asia) began translating Buddhist texts from Hindi to Chinese in 148 C.E. Over the subsequent 30 years, 30 such texts were translated into Chinese in the Chinese community of Lo-yang. Over the following centuries (about 250 years), Buddhism continued to make inroads into Chinese society. It was not until Buddhism in China developed a Chinese identity, however, that the practice of Buddhism became common in C
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