During the 1st century CE. It came from the west, from Central Asia, with merchants and Central Asian Buddhists. Unlike South-east Asia and Tibet, it was not to function as the vehicle for higher culture, since China had already acquired a high degree of literate civilization.

Buddhism is a faith wholly different from Shinto. The goal of the Buddhist disciple is interior enlightenment, as experienced and subsequently taught by the Buddha in India. The kernel of the Buddha’s teaching is that the world as we ordinarily see it is unreal, insubstantial, and productive of suffering.

Soon after Buddha's death or parinirvana, five hundred monks met at the first council at Rajagrha, under the leadership of Kashyapa.  Upali recited the monastic code (Vinaya) as he remembered it.  Ananda, Buddha's cousin, friend, and favorite disciple -- and a man of prodigious memory! -- recited Buddha's lessons (the Sutras).

Accroding to China Tibet Information Center report, Chinese archaeologists have found Buddhist relics belonging to the early Guge Kingdom of the 11th century in the Cazi Valley on the Chinese side along the Sino-India border.

National festivals–Festivals in honour of celestial beings–In honour of the Buddhas and Bodhisattwas–In honour of characters in Chinese Buddhist history–Supplemental anniversaries–Singhalese Buddhists keep a different day for Buddha's birthday–In the T‘ang dynasty Hindoo astronomers reformed the calendar–Gaudamsiddha–The week of India and Babylon known to the Chinese–Word mit for Sunday–Peacock Sutra–The Hindoo Rahu and Ketu.

Venerable Master Taixu (1890-1947), Chinese Buddhist reformer, founder of the Wuchang Buddhist Institute and the Buddhist journal Haichaoyin, and active participant in various Buddhist movements., He advocated the reform and renewal of Buddhism in China.

Theravada (Pali: thera "elders" + vada "word, doctrine"), the "Doctrine of the Elders," is the name for the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration from the Pali Canon, or Tipitaka, which scholars generally accept as the oldest record of the Buddha's teachings.

Rudolf Doering is a Zenpriest. He lives with his Japanese wife and his three children in his Buddhist temple in Dinkelscherben, a village in the Southern part of Germany.

In order to understand Korean Buddhism, we must first take a look at its history. Introduced from China in 372 A.D., Buddhism combined with indigenous Shamanism.

THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT BUDDHISM was initially introduced in Mongolia from Central Asia and China as early as the 4th century, although its later development there was almost entirely dominated by representatives of the Tibetan Buddhist orders.