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The history of Buddhism in Japan can be roughly divided into three periods, namely the Nara period (up to 784), the Heian period (794-1185) and the post- Kamakura period (1185 onwards). Each period saw the introduction of new doctrines and upheavals in existing schools.

1 Nara Period

Buddhism was first introduced to Japan via the Korean peninsula in 552, when Baekje monks came to Nara to introduce the eight doctrinal schools . Initial uptake of the new faith was slow, and Buddhism only started to spread some years later when Empress Suiko openly encouraged the acceptance of Buddhism among all Japanese people. In 607, in order to obtain copies of Sutras, an imperial envoy was dispatched to Sui dynasty China. As time progressed and the number of Buddhist clergy increased, the offices of Sojo (archbishop) and Sozu (bishop) were created. By 627 there were 46 Buddhist temples, 816 Buddhist priests, and 569 Buddhist nuns in Japan.

There were traditionally six schools of Buddhism in Nara Japan Ritsu ( Vinaya), Jojitsu (Satyasiddhi), Kusha ( Abhidharma) SanronSanron is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism. It was brought to Japan in 625 by the Korean monk Ekwan. Branches of Buddhism. ( Madhyamika, Hosso ( YogacaraYogcra (Skt: "yoga practice"), also spelled yogchra is an influential school of philosophy and psychology that developed in Indian Mahayana Buddhism starting sometime in the fourth to fifth centuries C. also commonly known as Consciousness-only (Skt: Chit), and KegonKegon is the name of the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism, via the Korean Hwaeom tradition. Huayan studies were founded in Japan when, in 736, the scholar-priest Roben (; originally a Hosso specialist) invited the Korean Sims ( Hua-yen). However they were not exclusive schools, and temples were apt to have scholars versed in several of the schools. It has been suggested that they can best be thought of as 'study groups'.

1.1 Ritsu

Founded by Daoxuan (道宣, Jp. Dosen), China, c. 650 AD
First Introduction to Japan: Ganjin (鑑真), 753 AD. The Ritsu school speciallised in the Vinaya (the monastic rules in the TripitakaThe Tripitaka ( Sanskrit, lit. three baskets , Tipitaka ( Pali), or ( Chinese: Snzang; Japanese: Sanzo; Korean: Samjang; ) is the formal term for a Buddhist canon of scriptures. Many different versions of the canon exist throughout the Buddhist world, con). They used the Dharmagupta version of the vinaya which is known in Japanese as Shibunritsu 四分律)



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