China

This source names China directly: "the Heart Sutra was likely composed in China rather than translated from an Indian original."

This source names China directly: "the Christian Literature Society for China in Shanghai, was the first English language treatment of the novel to reach a wide readership, though later specialist translators, notably Anthony C."

This source names China directly: "Bays's A New History of Christianity in China, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, is the standard modern academic survey of Chinese Christianity from its seventh-century beginnings to the present."

This source names China directly: "of Hellenistic Egypt and medieval China through the Renaissance physician-alchemists to Isaac Newton's own biblical chronology and unpublished alchemical notebooks."

This source names China directly: "in Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province, China."

This source names China directly: "circumstances of his removals from China are worth reading alongside it."

This source names China directly: "It belongs to the Mahayana traditions of China, Korea and Japan, which keep the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death as three separate commemorations."

This source names China directly: "60th anniversary in Beijing, a China Daily news report from 2024, is state media journalism marking the anniversary of the stupa's construction, not independent or scholarly analysis."

One of three major traditions braided in Chinese religious life, alongside Taoism and folk practice.

This source names China directly: "Wikipedia's article on Buddhism in China, community-edited."

This source names China directly: "which Buddhism continued east toward China."

This source names China directly: "Buddhist queens from Nepal and Tang China and with the building of the Jokhang and Ramoche temples in Lhasa."

This source names China directly: "century BCE, and separately from China from around the first century CE onward."

This source names China directly: "and Pure Land masters of Korea and China and the hierarchs and treasure revealers of Tibet."

This source names China directly: "on Falun Gong and its suppression in China, stating that pre-ban estimates of its membership ranged from 3 to 70 million including several thousand practitioners in the United States, and quoting..."

This source names China directly: "edition news and heritage feature from China Daily, the state English language newspaper, describing Yongle Palace's founding in the Yuan dynasty, its 1959 to 1964 relocation from Yongle town to..."

This source names China directly: "A China Daily culture section piece reporting the scale of Mazu worship, roughly three hundred million adherents worldwide by the article's count and about seventeen million believers in Taiwan..."

This source names China directly: "The China Daoist Ecology Protection Eight Year Plan itself, approved by the China Daoist Association in 2008 and covering 2010 to 2017, produced with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation and..."

This source names China directly: "Smith is a historian of late imperial China, and this short volume, published by Oxford University Press in its Images of Asia series, an accessible academic paperback line aimed at general but..."

Folk temple worship of local and ancestral deities predates and still underlies the country's Buddhist and Taoist practice.

This source names China directly: "mythological system, since classical China left no single canonical mythography comparable to Ovid or Hesiod."

This source names China directly: "by the Association, UNESCO and the China Confucius Foundation, with about eight hundred guests attending the opening ceremony and roughly four hundred scholars taking part in its academic sessions."

This source names China directly: "Ebrey is a historian of imperial China, and this Princeton University Press book is a social history of the written manuals that prescribed Confucian family ritual, weddings, funerals, ancestor..."

This source names China directly: "durable adoptions anywhere outside China itself."

This source names China directly: "August 30, 2023 "Measuring Religion in China" project, drawing on the Chinese General Social Survey and China Family Panel Studies to describe Taoist and Confucian belief and practice among Chinese..."

This source names China directly: "thought after decades in which Maoist China had treated Confucianism as a target of criticism."

This source names China directly: "and in various forms across mainland China, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam wherever Confucian temple ritual has continued or been revived."

This source names China directly: "Buddhist cave sculpture in medieval China and why, work grounded in epigraphy as much as in stylistic analysis."

This source names China directly: "Egypt, the Americas, Britain, China and elsewhere read the sky as religiously and politically meaningful, from Stonehenge's solstice alignment to the Mesopotamian identification of Ishtar with Venus..."

This source names China directly: "Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, published by Oxford University Press in 2003, is a scholarly study tracing wu-wei, the classical Chinese ideal of effortless, spontaneous right action..."

He ruled the southern half of a divided China from the capital at Jiankang, the modern Nanjing.

His conquest of Northern Qi in 577 prepared the reunification that the Sui completed four years after his death.

This source names China directly: "monk who traveled and studied in Tang China from 838 to 847, translated and scholarly annotated by the historian Edwin O."

This source names China directly: "Ownby's Falun Gong and the Future of China, published by Oxford University Press in 2008, is the standard scholarly study of Falun Gong's teachings, its origins under Li Hongzhi, and the Chinese..."

This source names China directly: "by a leading historian of modern China, treating the movement's Christian visions and doctrine as central to its rise and course."

This source names China directly: "Glasby's 2023 article for the South China Morning Post is professional journalism, not scholarly analysis."

This source names China directly: "A South China Morning Post retrospective on the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao becoming, on 28 November 1971 under Bishop Gilbert Baker, the first province of the Anglican Communion to..."

This source names China directly: "linking Confucian practice to China and to communism and restricting its open observance for more than three decades under Suharto's government."

This source names China directly: "Wikipedia's article on Islam in China, community-edited."

This source names China directly: "on Bouvet's Jesuit mission to China and his correspondence with Leibniz, so a claim resting on current scholarship needs a more recent source alongside it."

This source names China directly: "religious imagination in late imperial China rather than as a description of orthodox Buddhist or Daoist teaching."

This source names China directly: "gender transformation and cult across China; a claim about a specific regional cult practice today needs a more localized ethnographic source alongside it."

The site has been administered by China since 1950, and Indian pilgrims reach it on a permit-controlled government yatra.

This source names China directly: "publicly in Changchun, in north east China, in 1992, presenting it as a system of qigong exercise and meditation grounded in a moral philosophy of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance, drawing..."

This source names China directly: "later drawn on as Buddhism moved into China and reshaped how that figure was depicted there."

Homeland of the Manchu people and seat of the Qing dynasty they founded and ruled from 1644 to 1911.

This source names China directly: "Africa to Central Asia and southern China, but the religion did not survive as a living tradition."

This source names China directly: "from North Africa to Central Asia and China."

This source names China directly: "century, the 1370 CE ban under Ming China, its subsumption into Buddhism and Taoism before the end of the fourteenth century, and the surviving Cao'an temple site in Jinjiang, Fujian."

This source names China directly: "Empire and separately into medieval China, using primary sources in multiple languages including Chinese, Greek, Latin and Iranian material."

This source names China directly: "the Wutai Shan mountain range in China is venerated as his earthly abode."

This source names China directly: "Composed and compiled entirely in China more than two centuries before the Japanese monk Saicho studied at Zhiyi's own mountain and founded the Tendai school on the strength of what he learned there..."

This source names China directly: "and Charles Wong, published by China Books and Periodicals in 1991, is an illustrated popular introduction to Chinese festivals."

This source names China directly: "house church groups in eastern China, in which more than 70 people were detained and interrogated, over 20 were later fined, and more than 80 house church groups stopped meeting after police visits..."

This source names China directly: "or city, such as Buddhism Reaches China occurred in China."

This source names China directly: "the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, including arbitrary detention, torture and forced labour."

This source names China directly: "on the 1992 film Once Upon a Time in China II, naming its director, its 1895 Canton setting, and identifying its antagonist faction specifically as "the White Lotus Sect, a xenophobic cult" that..."

This source names China directly: "Like Bodhi Day, the date belongs to the Mahayana traditions of China, Korea and Japan, which mark birth, enlightenment and death as three separate commemorations."

This source names China directly: "is travel-feature journalism from China's state international broadcaster describing the Niujie Mosque, one of Beijing's oldest mosques."

This source names China directly: "resurgence of religious practice in China under Communist Party rule, using sociological method and fieldwork to analyze how religion persisted despite decades of state suppression."

This source names China directly: "noted uncertainty around figures for China."

This source names China directly: "the civil bureaucracies of imperial China, Korea, Vietnam and, in a more limited way, Japan, combining scholarly, ritual and administrative functions in a single role."

This source names China directly: "Science and Civilisation in China series published by Cambridge University Press, surveys the history of scientific and philosophical thought in China, including material relevant to Daoist and..."

This source names China directly: "14 of 1967, which linked the religion to China and communism and restricted its practice; and restored on 17 January 2000 by President Abdurrahman Wahid's Presidential Decree No."

He spent his later career in China and died at Beijing in 1939.

This source names China directly: "movement founded by Li Hongzhi in China in 1992."

This source names China directly: "it is about, such as Buddhism Reaches China spread event of Buddhism."

Fought within Qing China from 1850 to 1864, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Hong Xiuquan against the Qing dynasty and the regional and foreign-officered forces that eventually suppressed it.

Native Chinese tradition practiced alongside Buddhism and ancestor veneration in a widely shared folk mixture.

This source names China directly: "Shawn Eichman's Taoism and the Arts of China is the catalog of a major 2000 Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, written by the show's curators drawing on loaned objects from museums across China..."

This source names China directly: "Master of Taoism, who fled mainland China with the retreating Nationalist government and brought the religion's own orthodox Zhengyi leadership to the island; not the right source for a single..."

This source names China directly: "The Ancient Na khi Kingdom of Southwest China, Joseph F."

This source names China directly: "on Falun Gong and religious freedom in China, stating that "a reasonable estimate of the minimum number of people in China practicing Falun Gong today would fall in the range of 7 to 10 million..."

This source names China directly: "and adapted within early medieval China, distinct from the historian Erik Jan Zurcher, who separately wrote a history of modern Turkey."

This source names China directly: "archaeology, history and thought of China from earliest civilization through 221 BCE, each period and topic written by a specialist working directly with that period's textual and archaeological..."

This source names China directly: "Protestant congregations in China, known as house churches because they meet outside the state sanctioned Three Self Patriotic Movement."

This source names China directly: "Temples were shuttered and texts burned elsewhere in China in the same years."

This source names China directly: "The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation, Peter Schwieger's 2015 study from Columbia University Press, is a scholarly political..."

This source names China directly: "Willem de Visser's The Dragon in China and Japan is an early twentieth century scholarly study systematically comparing dragon mythology and religious symbolism across Chinese and Japanese sources..."

This source names China directly: "studies specifically rather than China specialists writing more generally."

This source names China directly: "the sutra was actually composed in China, likely by extracting and reworking passages from an earlier Chinese translation of a larger Perfection of Wisdom text, and only later translated back into..."

This source names China directly: "imams serving Muslim women in parts of China, published by Curzon Press, an academic press specializing in Asian studies."

This source names China directly: "Practice of Government in Early Han China, translated and edited by John S."

This source names China directly: "bodhisattva Guanyin's popular cult in China."

This source names China directly: "The game sold roughly two million legitimate copies across Greater China, with widespread piracy estimated to have put as many as twenty million copies into circulation, won the Best Role Playing..."

This source names China directly: "economy in the world, larger than Qing China or western Europe, with Islam established as the religion of its ruling elite across the subcontinent's north; this hop is distinct from the earlier..."

This source names China directly: "When the Republic of China government retreated to Taiwan in 1949 after its defeat in the Chinese Civil War, several religious leaders fled with it, among them Zhang Enpu, the 63rd Celestial Master..."

This source names China directly: "conflict surrounding its 1999 ban in China."

This source names China directly: "and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and Tibet, published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs in 1981, is a peer reviewed survey of the textual evidence for ritual and medical cannabis..."

This source names China directly: "Wilhelm's own recognized standing as a China scholar and translator of his era."

This source names China directly: "that specializes in coverage of Tibet, China and other Asian regions where information is otherwise tightly controlled."

Fought at the governor's yamen in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, China.

This source names China directly: "period, not Daoism generally across China or across other eras."

This source names China directly: "during a military campaign in Tang China."

This source names China directly: "across former Uyghur territory in China lost official protection almost overnight, ending the faith's single greatest political success only seventy eight years after it began."

This source names China directly: "Girardot's The Victorian Translation of China, James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage, published by the University of California Press in 2002, is a scholarly intellectual biography examining the..."

The Tibetan plateau lies within the People's Republic of China, which annexed Tibet in 1950 and 1951.

This source names China directly: "from the Mediterranean to India and China."

This source names China directly: "Autonomous Region of northwestern China, historically known to many as East Turkestan."

This source names China directly: "Quanzhen teaching across northern China after his death."

This source names China directly: "(Baiyunguan) in Beijing, seat of the China Daoist Association since 1957, is part of a dedicated, sustained reference project documenting Daoist temples across China."

This source names China directly: "Lu Dongbin, cross checked here against China Daily's account of the same relocation (which gives 1959 to 1964, a minor date range difference between the two sources rather than a substantive dispute)."

This source names China directly: "in Beijing's Lama Temple, published by China Tibet Online in 2015, is news reporting from a Chinese state-affiliated outlet covering Tibetan Buddhist culture from within China, describing a wooden..."

This source names China directly: "the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism in China, centered on devotion to Xuantian Shangdi and functioning as the Taoist counterpart to the Buddhist Shaolin Monastery; for its association with the..."

This source names China directly: "subsequent division among temples in China, Japan, Taiwan and India."

The river is the axis of southern China, and the Three Gorges Dam is the largest structure ever built on it.

Control of the river has been a central project of every modern Chinese government, from the republic to the People's Republic.

This source names China directly: "Sichuan and Guizhou in southwestern China, together with the ancestral spirits their ritual texts address."

He moved the capital to Beijing and laid out the altars of Heaven and Earth on which the imperial ritual calendar was performed until 1911.

This source names China directly: "on Zen Buddhism's history across both China and Japan, with this second volume tracing the Japanese Soto and Rinzai schools specifically through their documented historical development rather than..."

This source names China directly: "from around the twelfth century and in China thereafter; Andreas Sigismund Marggraf gave the first clear European account in 1746."

Chang'an stood on the site of the modern city of Xi'an.

Lhasa is administered as capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region within the People's Republic of China, a status whose wider legitimacy is disputed.

Cut into a cliff face near Dunhuang in Gansu province, China.

Carved into a sandstone cliff near Datong in Shanxi province, China.

The Chinese lunar new year.

Born near modern Nanjing into the southern gentry whose family traditions his writings preserve.

The People's Republic of China holds the great majority of Han Chinese today.

The seventh-month festival of the returning dead, kept by Buddhist and Taoist clergy alike.

The Chinese harvest moon festival of the eighth month.

The Chinese tomb-sweeping day of the spring.

He taught at Changan, where his commentary and his practice of recitation reached a mass audience.

He lived at Luoyang, outside office, among the circle of Northern Song scholars there.

The tradition places him in Shu, present day Sichuan. The dates given for his life are traditional.

He settled on Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang, from which the school takes its name.

The state of Lu, in what is now Shandong province, China; anchored to China, the nearest real place entity, since no dedicated Lu or Spring-and-Autumn-period entity exists in this catalog.

Fujian and Zhejiang provinces specifically, where the faith survived longest disguised as a Buddhist sect; anchored to China as the nearest live place entity.

Chang'an, the Tang capital, modern Xi'an.

Tang China, centred on the capital Chang'an.

Sichuan and later Hanzhong specifically; anchored to China as the nearest live place entity.