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Extent of the Han Empire. Buddhism was introduced in China during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) and was present by around 50 CE. [110] Although the archaeological record confirms that Buddhism was introduced sometime during the Han dynasty, it did not flourish in China until the Six Dynasties period (220–589 CE). [111]
During the Gupta Empire, a new class of Buddhist sacred literature began to develop, which are called the Tantras. [351] By the 8th century, the tantric tradition was very influential in India and beyond.
This list includes Buddhist kingdoms, empires, and khanates in South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Pala Empire ...
' the awakened one '), [4] [f] [g] was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia, [h] during the 6th or 5th century BCE [5] [6] [7] [c] and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, [b] to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a ...
Mahayana Buddhism was later transmitted through the Silk Road into the Han dynasty during the Kushan era under the reign of Emperor Kanishka. Buddhist tradition details the monk, Majjhantika of Varanasi, was made responsible for spreading Buddhism in the region by Emperor Ashoka. Later on, the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek king Menander I, who ...
The Buddhist Lodge had changed its name and was known as the Buddhist Society. It had relocated to its current address in Eccleston Square. Notably its journals have been Buddhism and The Middle Way and Christmas Humphreys was its president from 1926 until his death 1983. 1954: The Sixth Buddhist Council is held in Rangoon, Burma, organized by ...
Buddhism in Central Asia began to decline in the 7th century in the course of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. After the Battle of Talas of 751, Central Asian Buddhism went into serious decline [27] and eventually resulted in the extinction of the local Tocharian Buddhist culture in the Tarim Basin during the 8th century.
The edicts also state that during his tenth–eleventh regnal years, Ashoka became closer to the Buddhist sangha, and went on a tour of the empire that lasted for at least 256 days. [ 117 ] By his 12th regnal year, Ashoka had started inscribing edicts to propagate dharma, having ordered his officers ( rajjukas and pradesikas ) to tour their ...