Not all people liked the spread of Buddhism throughout China. In “Memorial on Buddhism” Han Yu, a leading Confucian scholar and official at the Tang imperial court, disliked Buddhism. He said that Buddhism is no more that a cult of the barbarian peoples spread to China. Han Yu says that if the spread of Buddhism in China is not stopped then there will be people cutting off their arms and mutilating there flesh in an offering to the Buddha. He also says that the Buddha is a barbarian and that his bones should be cast into a fire and that his evil should be rooted out.
Some of the Confucians of the late Koryo period opposed Buddhism as they burned down temples and slashed the throat of monks. Chong To Jon, a choson scholar official also rejected Buddhism because he argued that Buddhism neglected the family and national life in the present. He also criticized the weak ethical sense and lack of governing
4, 6). An additional document that would further help analyze the reactions to the spread of Buddhism in China would be hearing to what a peasant has to say, because peasants did not have a say in anything, and they were always looked down on. They had to follow the rules and religions, no matter the circumstances. Hearing his reaction of Buddhism can help determine how the religion impacted not only the nobles and common people, but also the peasants who had little faith in anything, especially government and religion. Many converts of China looked upon Buddhism with admiration.
Peasant rebellions began to arise. They received no benefits from the city; the city tried its best to remain separate from them. The Chinese then developed a justice system to stop the outbreaks of rebellions. The idea from the Chinese authority was that peace must keep intact. Many people did not agree with the authority they had over the people.
In countries like China, the freedom of religion is denied to all the residents there. The freedoms of speech, press, and assembly are also denied. This is because for the longest time China has been nervous of a rebellion of the people because as a whole, the population is angry. They are angry that they can’t do the things or have the rights that we do as Americans. Even inside the borders of our great nation, the Constitution shows that it’s still relevant to the American society.
In the Book “The Spirit catches you and you Fall Down”, the Lees family has problems with the American doctors because they don’t speak the same language and Hmong people are against using medicine. Especially when there may be a time when someone is about to die, and they can communicate but I think that using medicine is strictly against their religion. It depends on the situation if the Hmong would have to use medicine to cure what may be killing the person. It is uncommon for Hmong people to use medicine because it is against their
The FBI and The Bureau of Tobacco and Fire Arms failed to recognize the nature of millenarian beliefs because David Koresh viewed his delusions as reality of life. I think that the government didn’t think the beliefs are real because the beliefs were bizarre. Also, another reason the government didn’t take the Davidians serious because they were in cult. The ATF contributed that this event was a lot of troubles that caused a lot of people to die for a good purpose. Likewise in the First Amendment people want the government to take religious beliefs very serious in order to not cause another epidemic from happening
They state this to try to show how the Chinese refuse to assimilate. They are using this as proof to show how the Chinese are just too different from the US population and how they don’t respect our views and culture. Although I think it is fair to say the committee is doing the exact thing they
The Tang dynasty declined due to loss of communication throughout the empire, generals and officials gaining too much power, and revolts causing the empire to be weak and open for attack. The Tang soon fell then the Song dynasty came about fifty years later. During the Song dynasty men began to change their minds about religion, customs, and jobs. Many of the Song rulers began to think that Buddhism was allowing the women to have too many rights so they tried to change the religion back to Confucian beliefs; which lowered women’s rights. Instead of not having
Since the Chinese workers were excluded from the celebratory moment of the finish of the Transcontinental Railroad in the late 1800’s and the introduction of the exclusion laws preventing other Chinese citizens from entering the United States of America, to modern times and the anti-immigrant feelings coming through the radio and television a majority of United State citizens opposed immigration. Whether it is because of the group threat theory, the contact theory or cultural theory, or a combination of all three Americans do not like immigrants. Whether those feeling can dissipate throughout time or not can only be known waiting it does not seem like that is going to happen in the near