Buddhism

Buddhism Buddha (563' -483' BC). Indian Philosopher and the founder of Buddhism, born in Kapilavastu, India, just inside present-day Nepal. The name Gautama Buddha is a combination of the family name Gautama and the appellation Buddha, meaning “Enlightened One.” Buddhism was carried into Japan from Korea. It was known to the Japanese earlier, but the official date for its introduction is usually given as AD 552. Prince Shotoku proclaimed it the state religion of Japan in 593. Several important new sects of Buddhism developed in China and flourished there and in Japan, as well as elsewhere in East Asia. Among these, Ch’an, or Zen, and Pure Land, or Amidism, were most important. Kamakura Daibutsu----Buddhism was introduced to Japan in AD 539, when a Korean ruler sought an alliance with the ruler of Yamato in Japan. To please the Japanese, the Korean ruler sent a statue of the Buddha and some Buddhist scriptures, which he described as the greatest treasures he could send. Either OnoGoroemon or Tanji Hisatomo cast the Daibutsu (Great Buddha) figure at Kamakura, Japan, in bronze in 1252, both leading bronze casters of the buddhism, buddha, japan, wheel, ruler, monks, known, important, depicts, buddhist, statue, sins, name, make, life, korean, karma, kamakura, japanese, gautama, figure, circle, bronze, ad, according, zen, yamato, worldly, weighs, wall, truth, treasures, tons, time, three, tanji