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1.4 The Dwdopment of Buddhism in China and Japan<br />
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types of tMlsmiasions: the development of BIKIdhism in China invold an exchange<br />
been two well4efincd culhu*l, the tMlsmiUion of Buddhism to Southaw( Asia,<br />
h m , was the mult of importing Indian CulNn, and simikly, the reception of<br />
Buddhism in Japan was lin!ed with the arrival of Chinese culture and mhnology.<br />
Kenneth K. S. Ch'm, in his book, lk h c c Tmqfom'm @Buddhism,<br />
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to mwmps !h foreign Indian Buddhist world-view. Hu begins by dcsuibing Chinese<br />
religion before pnd after the inW& of Buddhism. Ch'en hfcs:<br />
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