How has buddhism influenced the society and its folllowers?

How has buddhism influenced the society and its folllowers?|||During the Tang Dynasty, the Buddhist scripture was brought back by a Chinese monk from India. The Buddha caves along the Silk Road started to appear when Buddhist monks carved the statues along cave walls, or painted murals on them. The monks' work provides a glimpse of the Chinese art in painting and sculpture. More importantly, the images of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Varja, and Arhats along with the proper attire are shown. Buddhism, along with Daoism, and Confucius' teaching sustained the Chinese tradition, heritage, and culture for the last few thousands of years.





The Buddhist belief teaches compassion, karma, reincarnation, meditation, karmic retribution, enlightenment, and respect of Heaven and Earth. Today majority of Tibetans are Buddhists and many dedicate to practice for the next life. Many Asians go to Buddhist temples in lunar new year day to offer incense.





While many Buddhists enjoy the freedom in many countries, except in Communist countries such as China. Falun Gong, Tibetans, other Buddhists, and Christians have been persecuted in China. The most offensive human right violation is the organ harvesting from the Falun Gong practitioners in China.


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Falun Gong is a unique Buddhist School, found in 1992 by Master Li Hongzhi in China. About 100 million people practice in over 80 countries worldwide. Falun Gong is an ancient practice for the body, mind, and spirit based upon the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. Falun Gong consists of five sets of powerful exercises.|||to run away from your fears|||Homework?





Sorry, I don't answer those. Do some research - it's good for you to not cheat. You learn more.|||As with all religions by its spirit unity. Thinking man has always feared to be held by a religion. When a strong and moving religion threatens to dominate him, he invariably tries to rationalize, traditionalize, and institutionalize it, thereby hoping to gain control of it. By such procedure, even a revealed religion becomes man-made and man-dominated. Modern men and women of intelligence evade the religion of Jesus because of their fears of what it will do to them--and with them. And all such fears are well founded. The religion of Jesus does, indeed, dominate and transform its believers, demanding that men dedicate their lives to seeking for a knowledge of the will of the Father in heaven and requiring that the energies of living be consecrated to the unselfish service of the brotherhood of man.