- Buddhism
- Reminder that buddhism is not becoming attached to impermanent things and achieving that through meditation
- Timeline
- Enters China during the Era of Division
- Some concepts similar to native Chinese beliefs
- Popular with nomadic regional rulers
- Buddhist monasteries control land, wealth, and political influence (kinda like with the Catholic church)
- Buddhist interpretation of the Emperor's role:
- To tell others to reach enlightenment
- Can call on spirits to aid in government
- Tang Dynasty
- Empress Wu
- Buddhist
- Attempts to establish Buddhism as the state religion
- Only empress! #badass
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