Buddhist knowledge and wisdom

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After his many trips to India in search of Buddhist knowledge and wisdom, the monk Xuanzang and followers contributed to religious and cultural change in China. To what extent can you attribute the spread of Buddhism to the efforts of individuals like Xuanzang? And....to what extent might general social conditions help to explain the popularity of Buddhism in China at that time? Often a religion will take hold in a place where there is a vacuum or need for something to give people hope.

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