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Buddhism in the Nara period

  • Shinbutsu-shūgōIn the sixth century, Buddhism arrived in Japan from China during the Asuka period. Prince Shōtoku, a regent born in 574, championed this new faith.
  • YogacharaIn the first centuries of the common era, a group of yogis from the Sarvastivada and Sautrantika traditions in north India began to adopt Mahayana Buddhism.