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How Buddhism won the hearts of the Chinese? (Part 2)
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In my previous post on how buddhism win the hearts of the chinese part-1, we discussed about the reason why Buddhism was not accepted by the Chinese society. One interesting denial of Buddhism came from the Confucians as they argued that Buddhism drained the people of their all too inadequate funds and made them crave for what they are not destined to have, and that it undermined the social order by destroying families through monastic celibacy. They also reason that Buddhism undermined the state by wothdrawing monks and nuns from productive economic life (exemption from tax) as well as military conscription.
Conflict between the state and religion was an issue early in Chinese history but in the late Han dynasty, governments became so weak that Buddhists found it easy to maintain the independence of their monks from the earthy authority. However, it was not until the six dynasties period (epoch after the fall of later Han dynasty) that Buddhism came to establish its foothold in China. During this period, foreign powers and influences Chinese civilisation as invaders overran North China.
North China, the heartland of the Chinese empire, was completely overrun by the ‘barbarians’ from outside China. South China, been incapable of restoring imperial unity, could not resist the entry of foreign religion and philosophy into China. This was also the period whereby Buddhism became widespread as the foreigner rulers were less resistance to Buddhism. (as a variant of Taoism since it has a magical appeal to the barbarian rulers)
The whole epoch from the 4th to 9th century is called the’ Buddhist age of both Chinese and Asian history. It was this period of time whereby Buddhism was embraced by the whole of Asian continent(except Siberia and West Asia). The Barbaric invasion of Chinese Empire is similar to what the Rome Empire experienced when they became completely destroyed. What is different is that the Chinese Empire managed to recover from the setback . We will leave this topic to another day. 
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