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Presentation of Buddhism and its history in China .

Leave to discovered Buddhism

The Potala :

In the town of Lhassa, Potala was the seat of the theocratic capacity Tibetan of the end of the XVIIth century until the XXth century. This palate-fortress, 400 m large and 118 m high, is made of several buildings encased one in another and organized on thirteen different levels.
Potala combines a roof of Chinese influence, with an Tibetan architecture. At the interior, a thousand of parts form an inextricable maze of rooms, rooms and galleries. Today, nearly 50 rooms are accessible to the visitors...

Monks with the monastery of Ganden :

Monks are supposed to study during all their life, because religious science is considered inexhaustible. The students are distributed in four sections, or four Faculties, according to the nature of the special studies to which they want to apply: 1° the Faculty of mysticity, which embraces the rules of the contemplative life, and examples contained in the life of the Buddhist saints; 2° the Faculty of liturgy, including/understanding the study of the religious ceremonies, with the explanation of all that is used for the worship lamaïc; 3° the Faculty of Medicine, having for object the four hundred and forty diseases of the human body, medical botany and the pharmacopeia; 4° finally, the Faculty of the prayers; the latter is considered, best remunerated, and consequently that which joins together a greater number of students.

Évariste Huc — Memories of a journey in Tartarie and Thibet.

Tsa-tsa in front of a mani paints will mantra 'Om mani padme hum' at the village of Serpo Lungpa :

The tsa-tsa (tibetan) is a small clay icon representing a religious deity, or symbol. It is manufactured using ground mixed with ashes of an important lama and can contain one will mantra...

Religious procession in a Chinese Buddhist temple in the valley of Xining :

If the historical Buddha is according to certain the founder of resolutely atheistic Buddhism, one has to admit that for the majority of the Buddhists, he is before all the most eminent character of the vast cosmopolitan Pantheon and that he makes for this reason, the object of an important worship...

Beginning of the XXth century photographs (Congregation of the Mission of Lazaristes of Paris) :

"About the middle of the century of our era, the emperors of the dynasty of Han officially admire, in China, Indian Buddhism. This religion with material representations of the Divinity was spread quickly among the Chinese, who called it religion of Fô, by an incomplete transcription of the name of Buddha."

Évariste HUC —The Chinese Empire.