Response To Buddhism Dbq Essay

Buddhism is a religion founded in the 5th century, by Buddha the person who then helped spread it into places like India and much of China and continuing to spread into some parts of Asia. The vast amount of trading routes such as the silk road in Asia helped Buddha and his views spread. This new religion clashed with other great religions such as Christianity causing some’s responses to Buddhism to be alarming. However, these were only a small amount of responses, the greater response to Buddhism in China was very positive with many supporting the idea that Buddha brought which was peace and enlighten.

To begin with, as stated before Buddhism was quite popular amongst the people of China. This is evident in the caves at Longmen, near Luoyang

Zhi Dun was a Chinese scholar, an author and a confidant of Chinese aristocrat as well as a high official in Northern China. (Doc1) He talked about the fact that those who devote their lives to following Buddha’s message will be enlighten at the end of their lives. They will be a state of happiness and satisfaction called nirvana. Zhi was approving of the new believe system that was making its way around. This is mostly because he felt that the Buddhism gave him a reason to stick to a certain set rules. People in that time needed to be organized and told what to do or else it would be chaotic, and Buddhism brought this. It told people how to live their lives, if they wanted to reach Nirvana. By him writing this, the people who read and learned from him caught the idea of what Buddhism was like and how beneficial it was at the end of someone’s life. An anonymous Chinese scholar also preached the same believes as Zhu. (Doc3) This scholar tried to answer the many questions people had over Buddhism. He answered the fact that Buddhism was not talked about in Confucians classics because it wasn’t needed to. Confucius didn’t need to talk about Buddhism since it was not relevant at the time. He also answered the fact that Buddhism was thought to be all about following conduct but he replied that if you wanted you exchanged wives and children for wisdom. It is obvious that there was still doubt in people’s mind about Buddhism. That is why this scholar tries to argue that, he is aware of the benefits and the good Buddhism will bring which is why he’s fighting for it. This is what happened to Muhammad when he started spreading Allah’s message in order to spread Islam. The people did not take the time to listen or pay attention to the message they only focused on one man trying to spread something that was not what they believed in, in this case however many of the people did not listen to