Which is now the White Horse Temple.
Therefore, in the history of Buddhism in China, the decade of Han Yongping is often regarded as the year when Buddhism was introduced. White Horse Temple became the first Buddhist temple in China. Forty-two Chapters also became the first Chinese translation of Buddhist scriptures in China.
The rapid development of Buddhist art in China was during the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.
This is an era of great social unrest in China. Indian Buddhism has developed rapidly in China, and has great exchanges with China traditional culture.
This exchange is not only of great significance to the development of China's ideological history, but also greatly promotes the development of China's art and sculpture.
In painting, Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, Zhang Sengyou and other painters, on the one hand, inherited the traditional Chinese painting techniques and styles in China, on the other hand, they were influenced by the Buddhist painting techniques from India and the Western Regions, and made epoch-making achievements in painting theory and expression means.
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The specific process of Buddhism's introduction into China
The introduction and development of Buddhism took place in the period of Emperor Han Ming (about 67 AD), and Buddhism introduced into China was called pagoda Buddhism.
According to the literature, the Buddha statues may have been introduced at the same time.
In 57 AD, Emperor Guangwu died of illness, and Zhuang succeeded to the throne, that is, Emperor Han Ming. One day, Emperor Han Ming dreamed of a golden man who was as high as 10 feet and wore a sun-like aperture around his neck.
This sun gear is actually the Buddha's Light. Sun gear is radiant and glittering, and golden people are flying around in the golden hall.
The next day, Emperor Han Ming told the ministers about this dream, and many ministers couldn't tell who the shining golden man was.
Doctor Yi Fu said, "There is a god in Tianzhu named Buddha. The golden man your majesty dreamed of must be the Buddha of Tianzhu. "
The Tianzhu mentioned by Fu Yi, also known as Body Poison, is the place where the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, was born (Tianzhu is another name of ancient India, and Sakyamuni was born in northern ancient India and now Nepal).
Sakyamuni was born in 565 BC) and was originally a prince. Legend has it that at the age of 29, Sakyamuni gave up the comfortable life of the royal family and became a monk. A religion called Buddhism was founded.
Sakyamuni preached Buddhism everywhere.
Sakyamuni preached for more than forty years and received many believers. Everyone respects Sakyamuni as "Buddha". After the death of Sakyamuni, his disciples recorded Sakyamuni's teachings before his death and compiled them into Buddhist scriptures, which are Buddhist scriptures.
Yi Fu's words aroused the curiosity of Emperor Han Ming.
So he sent two officials, Cai Cheng and Qin Jing, to Tianzhu to seek Buddhist scriptures.
Cai Kun and Qin Jing and his party traveled through mountains and rivers. When they arrived in Dayue country (now Afghanistan), they happened to meet two eminent monks in Tianzhu, Mo Teng and Zhu Falan.
After communication, Cai Cheng and Qin Jing thought that these two monks were the people that Emperor Han Ming was looking for, so they decided to invite She Moteng and Zhu Falan to give lectures in China.
In the 10th year of Yongping (A.D. 67), two Indian monks were invited to return to Luoyang, the capital of China, together with the messengers of the Eastern Han Dynasty, riding a white horse carrying Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues.
Emperor Han Ming was very happy to see Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues. He attached great importance to the two monks, personally received them, and arranged for them to stay in the "Split Temple", the official department in charge of foreign affairs at that time.
In the 11th year of Yongping (AD 68), Emperor Han Ming ordered the construction of a temple to the north of Sanliyu Road, outside Yong Men, Luoyang. In order to commemorate the White Horse Tuojing, it was named "White Horse Temple".
The word "temple" comes from the word "temple" of "crack hon temple", and later the word "temple" became the general name of temples in China. The Forty-two Chapters Sutra, which was shot by Morten and Zhu Falan, is the first Chinese translation of Buddhist sutras in China.
After taking photos of Mo Teng and Zhu Falan, many western monks came to Baima Temple to translate scriptures. After 68 AD, 150 years, 395 volumes of 192 Buddhist scriptures were translated here, and Baima Temple became the first translation Dojo in China.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Buddhism in Han Dynasty