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 * Buddhism
 * Buddhist merchants traveling Silk Roads bring Buddhism
 * during Han Dynasty Confucian, Daoism, cults that honored family ancestor's most popular
 * fall of Han, Confucianism declined
 * Mahayana Buddhism grow popular in Tang and Sonmg Dynasty
 * oases were 1st sites of conversion
 * Dunhuang becomes Buddhist community
 * Buddhism attracted interest because of high standards of morality, intellectual sophistication, promise of salvation
 * Monasteries emerge attracting converts
 * Buddhist theologians took written texts for investigation into metaphysical themes (nature of the soul)

(example: dharma is like dao)
 * Chan Buddhism
 * combined Buddhism with Daoism to explain Buddhist values through Chinese traditions
 * emergence of Chan Buddhism emphasizing intuition and sudden flashes of insight in search for spiritual enlightenment
 * resembled Daoism more than Buddhism
 * Chan Buddhism grew popular; monasteries appear
 * Xuanzang visited India to study and clear up Buddhism


 * Hostility
 * Daoists and Confucians became hostile towards Buddhism because it was growing popular and replacing traditional Chinese traditions
 * 840s Tang emperors expelled monasteries=expulsion of Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Nestorian Christians, Manichaens but did not eradicate foreign faiths


 * Neo-Confucianism
 * combination of Buddhism and traditional Confucian thought
 * used selective parts of Buddhism traditions and writings and adapted them- nature of the soul and individual relationship with cosmos

Intellectual Approved by:Brett Krumenacker and Shane Daggett __//**Approved By: Theodore Cervantes**//__
 * need for educated individuals for the bureacracy in the Tang Dynasty which led to the establishment of the Confucian Education System
 * curriculum focused on a classic Confucian literature and philosophy
 * supplied the complicated Bureacratic system with recruits who could perform the necessary jobs
 * Bureacracy of Merit- job determined by an individual's ability and talents