Religions in China

Date Submitted: 10/04/2004 23:22:40
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 22 pages (6138 words)
A Brief Introduction of China's Religions China's main religions are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, and Christianity. Religions with fewer adherents are the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity and numerous regional faiths, as practiced by China's ethnic minorities. Buddhism was brought to China from India in about the first century AD and slowly divided into three branches, depending on which language group was practicing it, Han, Bali or Tibetan, the Tibetan form is now also known as …
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…could avail. This was the meaning of the development of Zen Buddhism in China. We must realize that briefly, the intellectual heritage of classical China is threefold: its humanism, its rationalism, its spirit of freedom. The humane and rational qualities have been deeply planted in our minds. Therefore, we created religion and don't reject religion or even could be overtaken by religion, however, it would never be our whole lives, not even an important part.
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