It’s Buddhism. Right? Then what’s the diff in both Buddhism? What are % of diff religions in china?
What Is Difference Between Religion Of China And Tibet?
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It’s Buddhism. Right? Then what’s the diff in both Buddhism? What are % of diff religions in china?
All Tibet’s base are belong to China
It’s Buddhism. Right? Then what’s the diff in both Buddhism? What are % of diff religions in china?
China and Tibet is there a difference?
In my homeland. Before Buddhism came, Bon was the main religion in Tibet. Later after the arrival of Buddhism, some of practices of Bon religion still remained in Tibetan Buddhism, majority Mahayana
China has i think three main religion (before Christianity & Islam) and they are Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism.
Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India (Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Sikkim). It is also practiced in Mongolia and parts of Russia (Kalmykia, Buryatia, and Tuva) and Northeast China. Tibetan Buddhism comprises many distinct schools, but is primarily divided into four main traditions: Nyingma, Kagyu, Gelug, and Sakya.
Tibetan Buddhism is very visual as well as very verbal. People use objects, such as prayer wheels, dorjes (thunderbolts), bells, etc on a daily basis. Temples have large prayer wheels which people can spin as they walk around the temple in a clockwise direction (a person’s right side is pure and must always face the temple, the left side should always face away from the temple). Tibetan temples are filled with mandalas (elaborate symbolic paintings), statues, rugs, wall hangings, statues, offerings, etc. In front of Buddha statues, there are always butter lamps burning; people drape statues with prayer scarves as a means of worship. Study is verbal, with monks reciting in unison or engaging in debates on various points of doctrine. The debates are physical as well as mental, with elaborate hand and body gestures accompanying the statements.
In China: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism.
Confucianism: the most important element in Confucian ideas is that everything in life is relational; one’s success or failure in any situation depends upon one’s relations to others.
There are certain key values that Confucians use in making all decisions and these values do not change but the ways they are applied change. The first value is compassion for all involved in a given situation. The second is righteousness and justice for everyone involved in a situation. The third is propriety, what is the proper way to act while maintaining the relationships in which one is involved. The fourth is loyalty: how to act in this situation while supporting all one’s possible conflicting loyalties. The fifth is to act with filial piety, considering the welfare of one’s parents, and by extension, one’s family, and one’s country, not one’s own wishes. The sixth is honesty and truthfulness.
Daoism: Like Confucianism, Daoism is a native Chinese tradition that is both a philosophy and a religion. In its philosophical mode, it became the preserve of the educated elite, of poets and administrators, of the retired and those experiencing difficulties in life. Daoist philosophy, centering on the mystical (and thus hard to understand) writing attributed to Laozi (Lao Tse) and Zhuangzi (Chuang Tse) stresses letting nature take its course, following the natural way. It attributes all ills to interference with nature and thus stresses that humankind should discard all contrivances and return to a simple state. It uses images of water (the softest of all things which wears away the hardest stone) to illustrate the virtue of non-contention. It uses feminine images to counter the more masculine images of a traditional Confucian society: in Daoist thought, the feminine always triumphs. Many well known Chinese ideas, including those of guerilla warfare and the martial arts, are based on Daoist principles of using weakness to overcome strength. (Mao Zedong once said of the Red Army, that it ran away 100 times more than it fought, which is why it was victorious).
Daoism was a fairly anti-establishment kind of philosophy; it advocated a natural lifestyle and opposed the Confucian stress on ethics and education. To Daoists, ethics were natural until civilization messed things up; thus the more education a person had, the less reliable she/he was, because he/she was more divorced from the natural way. Daoism is full of wonderful stories that illustrate its points.
Buddhism in China:
Buddhism is the third of the mix of great religions that shaped Chinese life and culture. Unlike Confucianism and Daoism, Buddhism was not a native tradition but originated in India and was brought to China over a number of centuries by traders, missionaries, and travelers. While it entered China during the Eastern Han dynasty (1st and 2nd centuries A.D.) it didn’t become popular until the period of division in China (3-6th centuries). During this time period, China was divided into a number of independent kingdoms, split between native Chinese dynasties ruling in the South and nomadic conquest dynasties ruling in the North. It was a time of great uncertainty, of military rule, of the destruction of cities and livelihoods. However, this period was also one of intellectual and scientific change and growth and it was during this period of time that Buddhism gained a strong foothold in both North and South China, although for different reasons. To many Chinese, it offered an explanation of what had happened to their civilization and a response to the difficulties of the day.
Buddhism came to China with ideas and beliefs vastly different from those of native Chinese religions and its acceptance was a process of accommodation on both sides. Four main differences between Buddhism and Chinese ideas are: the Buddhist belief in reincarnation compared to the Chinese belief in a single life; the Buddhist insistence upon leaving society and entering the homeless celibate life of a monk or nun compared to the Chinese emphasis on family and continuing the descent line; the Buddhist belief in the non existence of a soul compared to the Chinese belief in both heavenly and earthly souls and the continuation of these souls’ ability to influence events after death; the Buddhist belief in the independence of the monastic community compared to the Chinese insistence that all institutions are under the government. In all of these areas, Buddhism adjusted to Chinese society. Thus, the Chinese came to believe both in reincarnation and in the deceased becoming an ancestor; Buddhist temples became repositories for spirit plaques and memorial services to ancestors. The government passed laws restricting who could become a monk or a nun and forbidding children who had no siblings from taking this path. The government insisted that the monasteries were subservient to the state and indeed they came to be supporters of the government.