Han, Gupta, And Indian Empires In China And China

Social classifications and expectations between classical china and classical India were very similar to each other. Both classical China and classical India had what is called a caste system. A caste system is when a citizen is organized into a special group that determined everything from their job, to their political rights, to their religious beliefs, and who they would marry.

3. a) Religion – Han China’s political system was directly influenced by Confucianism, and India’s political system correlated with Hinduism

During the Classical period, Han China and Mauryan/Gupta India developed many methods of political control. Although these empires were located in different geographic regions, they both used social hierarchy, language, bureaucracy, and religion as a means of political control. Many of Classical India’s religious beliefs and bureaucratic practices contrasted each other in relation to the ways that they supported the methods of political control.

Just as Buddhism unified Japan during arduous times, it also helped unify India under Ashoka’s command. Ashoka fought great battles and imposed his rule on people southward along the eastern coast of India. The sufferings created by the war disturbed Ashoka and he found relief in the religion known as Buddhism. He adopted Buddhism to bring equality to all and found great comfort knowing the religion was so accepting.

The foundations were set for these two Classical developing empires: China, separated from other developing empires and India, supported by them. While both Classical China and India had hierarchy’s based on agriculture and organized patriarchal societies, India developed multiple institutions, such as language, while China developed one united dialect.

Ancient China and ancient India both consider religion to be very important. The main religions of China were Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism. The central religions in India were Hinduism and Buddhism. Both Ancient China and India had religious teachers that invented these prevalent religions. Confucius invented Confucianism, Lao Tzu invented Taoism, and Hsün Tzu invented Legalism in China. In India, Hinduism had its roots in the religious beliefs of the Aryan people

During Classical period (600 B.C.E - 600 C.E), religion and beliefs had a big impact on society and culture development. They helped the societies create more special characteristics, and bring social order in the societies. Hinduism in India, and Confucianism in China, both did help to influence and improve the societies deeply. Both of them introduced their moral rules, and added classes system, but they both had differences on their goals of people’s individual responsibilities, and also individuals focus.

Buddhism for centuries, has long been influencing the population all over the world, specifically in China . Buddhism first came to China as a result of merchant traders from India. From there it spread within the merchant community. It mainly expanded because it gave people a sense of hope and faith with the chaos they were experiencing from the collapse of the Han Dynasty. It also spread because it covered what Confucianism lacked; a more spiritual and emotional approach that appealed to many people of different classes. It is because of this that Buddhism spread and was able to influence and greatly affect China during the period of 300-900 CE. Buddhism influenced philosophy and moral teachings, kept the Chinese society peaceful and orderly, as well as affecting the overall economy. Buddhism had strong religious teachings that appealed to the lower class with the idea of afterlife and nirvana as well as an emphasis on following your own path that transformed Chinese beliefs causing a large portion of the population to convert (doc’s 1,4). Buddhism kept the Chinese society orderly by reminding all of Buddha’s life and teachings with statues and the influence it had on monks to spread charity and missionary work (doc’s 2,3,6). Buddhism also had an effect on the economy of China. As it spread from other regions, it caused more farmers and silk producers to convert and spread the religion as monks and nuns. (doc 7,5).

There are multiple reasons why and how Buddhism spread in China. I feel that factors like, religion, politics, and social, played a major part in spreading Buddhism throughout China. The factors mentioned are usually a contributor in global changes and has definitely played its part in China’s adapting a new belief. Of course there were other reasons, like economic, that caused the people of China to gravitate to the Buddhist ways. People reconsidering their faith, due to many of life downfalls or the weight of participants in something that’s new, gained recognition and spread due to popular demand. During the political chaos from 221 to 589 that came with the collapse of the Han Dynasty, Buddhism started to become a strong existence in

The spread of religion first began through contact with neighbouring countries which gradually expand throughout the years. Buddhism and Islam are one of the most widespread religions across Southeast Asian countries like Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Trade merchants and imperial support of the religion were major factors in the facilitation and localization of the spread of Buddhism and Islam within Southeast Asia. However, there were also limitations presented which hindered the development of each religion in within their countries as introduction of newer religions and changes to political and imperial power would have affected the progression to become fully localised pre-1800s.

Religion- the Sui Empire adopted the idea of Buddhism, mainly thanks to the influence of Emperor Wen when he established himself as a Buddhist leader

One aspect of Buddhism that stood out to me was the fact that Buddhism was not as closely tied to political power as Christianity or Islam. Although Buddhism held large and valuable estates throughout East Asia, Buddhism never attempted to acquire direct roles of political power, nor challenge the government in countries such as China or Japan. This lies very much in contrast with Christianity and Islam. Christianity created a synonymous church and state by having important Christians, especially emperors, hold an enormous and one could say almighty, religious, social, economic and political power. Similarly, due to the Islamic Shari’a Law sometimes equating the actual law, Islam made theological differences into political issues.

Both Hinduism and Buddhism have been apart of Indias culture for a very long time. Hinduism is one of Indias oldest and most followed religions. Buddhism has a different message, it’s basically aimed at trying to end the suffering. Although the two religions are very similar, they do have a vast amount of differences that makes both the religions there own. Still in all, both of the religions are both very important in the Eastern world.

Mahayana Buddhism spread throughout China from trade routes with India. The factors that allowed Mahayana Buddhism become so popular was that the religion focused on personal enlightenment and salvation rather than focusing on the problems of government (von Sivers, Desnoyers, and Stow 266). Secondly, Chinese rulers soon adopted the religion to strengthen their power (von Sivers, Desnoyers, and Stow

In the Hindu religion, the founder was not one person alone. It is believed by historians that the Aryans developed Hinduism over 3500 years ago. The Hindu religion was developed around the caste system. The caste system was the social class of India. At the top to the caste system were the Brahmins or the