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Siniddng Buddhivn, u MU as Indinnidng Chine culm. Thu is, in addition m
adapting Oliney mlturr m lndinn Buddhil wrM-view, the Chin- zdaptsd Indian
Buddhinn lo rcAa ChirrPcadmrr. Ch'm cards this pmcar as i mull of the Chinese
ha6aul charm& or ' I d genius.' He wiles:
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By this i d gmius or national chKactu is rmnt the sum mtll of the cultural
tnits which the vast majority of the Chinese adhd m, trpits that had been
developed by them during their long history. It w thmugh the rmnifotaton of
thin id gmiu* ulat they were able to chmodify
them m fit the Chine si~atim."
from mc hdim religion md
Ha. the Chincre kd gmius acted u the mnmt in which Indinn Buddhism wu m be
underrmod. This mtional charmer made vnoe of Buddhism according Lo Chinese t ens
and, hence, Sinlciad Buddhism u Buddhirm war Indimiring Chim.
E. Ziircher laLU 1 similar view on the early nape of development of Chine
a new d organidm into Chines rodety. mely the monastic community (snsgho)).
ZUrchPx wiles:
Buddhism h not md has never pretended m be a .theory', m uplamim of the
mivarc; it is a way m ral~tion, n way of life. Its inUoduHion inm chi^ means
nM only the pmpagmon of m n reltsoru nmons. ba also the henmdusllm of
a new lam of salal orgushan the moniunc commurury. the d8ho To the
Chlnue Buddh~sm h%s llvavs rrmamnd a damne of monks fo- and
counter-fom whvhrch w& bow bv the cxrrahe d the Buddbn Church m
Chi, the MNdu of the hrelligenrsia and of the govrmmt, the sdd
background and rQNo of the clergy and the dual integration of the m&c
community into medieval Chinese society ue racial phenomena of fvndamental
impomce which have played a dsirive mle in the formation of early Chinese