In addition, about 70 famous adepts in Tibetan Buddhism surround him.
Temples were built as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty (25--220) and Buddhism was introduced to the mountain during the Jin Dynasty.
Essentially a Daoist in his philosophical outlook on life and death, he also freely adopted the elements of Confucianism and Buddhism that most appealed to him.
Cheng Hao was interested in both Buddhism and Taoism as a young man.
He was early captivated by writings of Han Yu, whose opposition to Buddhism he shared, though in a more moderate form.
Li Zhi openly adopted the stance of a heretic and wrote, "I dislike Confucianism, I don't believe in Daoism (Taoism) and I don't believe in Buddhism; so whenever I see Daoist priests I detest them, whenever I see Buddhist monks I detest them, and whenever I see Confucian scholars I detest them even more.
He attacked Daoism and Buddhism, which were then at the height of their influence.
After six attempts and the loss of his eyesight, Jianzhen finally arrived, and made a significant contribution to the spread of Buddhism in Japan.
It's having what the Buddhism refers to as "the beginners mind".
"I have always found Buddhism, Japanese Zen Buddhism in particular, to be aesthetically sublime," he said.
The Search Jobs's interest in Eastern spirituality, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and the search for enlightenment was not merely the passing phase of a nineteen-year-old.
" Vegetarianism and Zen Buddhism, meditation and spirituality, acid and rock—Jobs rolled together, in an amped-up way, the multiple impulses that were hallmarks of the enlightenment- seeking campus subculture of the era.
" Jobs's engagement with Eastern spirituality, and especially Zen Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling.
Kottke, from a wealthy New York suburb, was smart but low-octane, with a sweet flower-child demeanor made even mellower by his interest in Buddhism.
He did, however, spend years studying and trying to practice the tenets of Zen Buddhism.
Known since the late 19th century as the silk roads, these networks carried goods, merchants and evangelists who brought ideas about faith and salvation, enabling the spread of Buddhism and Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity — the latter taking root quicker and more successfully in Asia than it did in the Mediterranean.
—Sakyamuni,founder of Buddhism ,,.
Contacts with the Kushan Empire led to the introduction of Buddhism to China from India in the first century.
In addition, Tibetan Buddhism has provided widespread doctrine on the tea-horse ancient road, further promoting economic dialogue, cultural exchanges, along with unity and friendship between the nationalities of Naxi, Bai, Tibetan and other ethnic groups.
If you try to learn Buddhism by sitting in meditation, that would amount to throttling a Buddha.
