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Northeast China folk religion influenced by Tungus and Manchu shamanism, widespread Shanrendao Geographic distributions and major communities of religions in China. [112] [113] The varieties of Chinese religion are spread across the map of China in different degrees.
Forms of religion in China throughout history have included animism during the Xia dynasty, which evolved into the state religion of the Shang and Zhou.Alongside an ever-present undercurrent of Chinese folk religion, highly literary, systematised currents related to Taoism and Confucianism emerged during the Spring and Autumn period.
Chinese Buddhism is a sinicized form of Mahāyāna Buddhism, which draws on the Chinese Buddhist Canon (大藏經, Dàzàngjīng, "Great Storage of Scriptures") [1] as well as numerous Chinese traditions. Chinese Buddhism focuses on studying Mahayana sutras and Mahāyāna treatises and draws its main doctrines from these sources.
Buddhism is the largest officially recognized and the most prevalent religion in China. Estimates from 2023 suggest that of the entire Chinese population (1.4 billion) about 33.4% is Buddhist (470 million). [1] There are three main branches of Buddhism in China: Han or Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Theravada Buddhism. [2]
Mahāyāna Buddhism. The history of Chinese Buddhism begins in the Han dynasty, when Buddhism first began to arrive via the Silk Road networks (via overland and maritime routes). The early period of Chinese Buddhist history saw efforts to propagate Buddhism, establish institutions and translate Buddhist texts into Chinese.
Taoism or Daoism (/ ˈdaʊ.ɪzəm / ⓘ, / ˈtaʊ.ɪzəm / ⓘ) is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao —generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The concept originates in the Chinese word 道 (pinyin ...
Christianity is a minority religion in the Xinjiang region of the People's Republic of China. The dominant ethnic group, the Uygur, are predominantly Muslim and very few are known to be Christian. In 1904, George Hunter with the China Inland Mission opened the first mission station for CIM in Xinjiang.
The Temple of the City God in Wen'ao, Magong, Taiwan. Altar inside the Temple of the Five Lords in Haikou, Hainan. Chinese folk religion comprises a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. This includes the veneration of shen ('spirits') and ancestors, [ 1 ] and worship devoted to deities and ...