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» A Defense of Buddhism vs. Confucianism
   A defense of Buddhism written to refute some of the charges against the new religion from India by Confucian and other Chinese. While the author and date of composition are uncertain, this kind of tract was common in China under the Southern Dynasties (42
   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/dispos.html

» A Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms
   An account of the (394-414CE)journey by Fa-hsien and his companions. They visited as many of the Buddhist sacred shrines as they could, especially those associated with the presence of the Buddha. The selections presented here show the reasons for the est
   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/faxian.html

» Chinese Doctrinal Classifications of Buddhism
   In the fifth and sixth centuries CE, Chinese Buddhists employed p'an-chiao as a hermeneutical strategy to reconcile the discrepancies among the different teachings believed to have been taught by the Buddha. By resorting to the doctrine of expedient means
   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/doctrina.html

» Dafo
   The worlds largest Buddha, in Leshan, China.
   http://www.gluckman.com/LeshanBuddha.html

» Han Yu's Memorial to Buddhism
   One of the leaders in the Confucian counterattack on Buddhism was the classical prose stylist and poet Han Yu (768-824 CE), who in 819 CE composed this vitriolic polemic attacking Buddhism. A champion of rationalism, Han Yu wished to suppress Daoism as we
   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/hanyu.html

» The Legend of Miao-shan
   In China, Kuan-yin (Avalokitesvara) came to be most frequently worshipped in female form as the Goddess of Mercy. This transformation from an originally male deity into a female one seems to have occurred sometime during the Northern Sung dynasty (960-112
   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/miao-sha.html