Popular Deities of Chinese Buddhism (Illustrated)

 

B H  

D  B

e chools of uddhism

S B

T S

T

(H) M

U G

A

U G

B

S

e Pali Canon S

Sanskrit and Translations in

Chinese & Tibetan

S

Pure Land, Ch’an and other

Chinese, Japanese & Tibetan

Schools.

From India Buddhism gradually spread out all over the Asian

continent with the eravada being widely accepted in Sri

Lanka, Burma, ailand, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia while

China, Mongolia, Japan, Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan

accepted the Mahayana School of thought.