Over the past thousands of years, in the process of constantly integrating into the ancestral family, different ethnic groups, different cultural traditions and religious beliefs have constantly collided here, absorbed, borrowed and integrated, forming the brilliant regional cult

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is an important member of our country's unified multi-ethnic family. Over the past thousands of years, in the process of constantly integrating into the ancestral family, different ethnic groups, different cultural traditions and religious beliefs have constantly collided here, absorbed, borrowed and integrated, forming the brilliant regional cultural, religious and folk characteristics of the region. It has greatly enriched the profound and profound cultural connotation of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and continuously imported its own source of vitality for the great revival of the Chinese nation in the new historical period.

. In this exchange, the long-lasting Buddhist culture tradition in this region has been developing in the times, constantly integrating with the local Chinese culture, and has continuously developed vitality and made great contributions in ethnic grouping, religious harmony, and joint construction of prosperity.

Historical overview of Buddhist culture spread in our region

Since Buddhism was born in the Indian sub-mainland 2,500 years ago, it has been widely spread in various regions of the Indian sub-mainland. Among them, the teachings mainly based on Mahayana teachings were successively transferred to our country in North India, Kamiyaro, Yuezhi and other places, and were transferred to the Central Plains Luoyang at the end of Western Han Dynasty and early Donghan. Because it spreads all the way north, it was called Buddhism in the north. Later, it spreads outward from the Central Plains where the Han people lived, and it was called Buddhism in the Han Dynasty. Han Buddhism was gradually transferred into the Inner Mongolia region in the early years of Donghan. At the beginning, few people became monks in the local area. With the increasing number of local Han people, the classics of Han's teachings on Mahayana and Hinayana have been introduced to the Inner Mongolia region. During the Dongjian and the Sixteen Kingdoms period, most of the ethnic minorities in this area supported Mahayana Buddhism, and together with the Mahayana Buddhism promoted in the Central Plains, they were called Northern Buddhism and Han Buddhism. For more than a thousand years, as the Han ethnic group settled in the Inner Mongolia region, the Han Buddhist monks and the Han Tu sects also built temples in the local area to spread the word, greatly enriching the Buddhist cultural traditions in the local area.

Generally speaking, Tibetan Buddhism was first introduced to my country's Tibet area in the seventh century AD, and the eighth century AD, the Tang Dynasty, Princess Jincheng and the son of Tubo Zhuangpu, Chisongdezhen, took over. From India, he welcomed monks such as Li Wan Huasheng, Jingming and others to enter the city, and was amazed in Tibet with the main Mahayana Buddhism. It is called Tibetan Buddhism. After the short-term decline after passing Langdama Buddha, Atizai, , Tsongkhapa, and others will recover. The spread of the Tibetan Jin Cheng teachings in the Inner Mongolia region began in 1247 AD. This year, the political and educational leader of Tibetan local , Saka Banzhida, his nephew Baspa held a "Xizhou Conference" with Dayuan Herui on the West Mongolia Road in Weizhou (now Wuwei, Gansu). After this meeting, Tibet was officially included in the Chinese version of the picture and became an administrative area under the central government of the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty court also formed a relationship of offerings with various Tibetan Buddhist sects. After that, during the Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China, Tibetan Buddhism, such as Saga, Kasu, and Gelu, were widely spread in the Inner Mongolia region, and the Gelu (commonly known as Huangshu) founded by Tsongkhapa was the mainstream. In the mid-Qing Dynasty, there were more than a thousand Tibetan-style monasteries in the Inner Mongolia area, and more than ten thousand monks became monks. Tibetan Buddhism has had a greater impact on the literature, painting, medicine, carving, music and architecture of the local Mongolian .

Until around the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, there were more than 40 Han Dynasty temples, more than 900 Buddhist temples in Tibetan, and more than 50,000 monks. After the 1980s, with the implementation of the party's religious policies, both Han and Shang Buddhism have developed more greatly. Now there are 24 Han Chinese venues and 109 Tibetan Buddhist temples. There are about 1,800 monks and nuns in Han and Tibetan areas. Buddhism has a deep faith and cultural foundation in the Inner Mongolia region.

From the historical structure of Buddhism imported and developed in our region, we can clearly see that the development of Buddhism is closely related to the development of economy, society, humanities and other aspects in our region. During the period of social stability and national gangs in our region, Buddhism was spread and developed; and during the period of war and separatism, its development was hindered or even declined. Therefore, Buddhism has a natural localized gene that integrates with local society and is appropriate.On the other hand, the spread of Buddhist Dharma has also greatly promoted the historical process of the region's comprehensive integration into the great family of the ancestors, and played an important role in promoting ethnic integration, social stability, and cultural prosperity.

In this great era when the Chinese nation was heading for a great rejuvenation, it further promoted the localization and Chineseization of Buddhism, making it a huge boost to national rejuvenation, and has its great historical value and practical significance.

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