Buddhist Study

Buddhism and Taoism are really so different or is their sole source for both? Shaolin martial art is known as the fundamental origin of Taoism Kung Fu Association in cooperation with the enormous development of the martial arts since the arrival of the Shaolin Temple in 520 BC, the first patriarch Bodhidharma, “Chan Buddhism. As with other connections between the both faiths this article discusses the origins of Kuan Shih Yin – Immortal Taoist and Buddhist bodhisattva!

Long before the Lord Buddha and the Master of Kung in today’s Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (500 BC) Kuan Yin (“Kung Fu Tzu” as “Confucius” is the west) was well known throughout China as a Taoist immortal. In fact, it was (also strangely androgynous) with the Queen Mother of the West, the immortal Ren Ci slope and an anonymous woman in the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC), which was then identified increased to Immortal ( 1).

Kuan Yin (Kuan Shih Yin sometimes) is also a Buddhist bodhisattva (Saint) and is considered by many as the Buddha (“Enlightened One”). A tutelary deity of the temple of Shaolin, is his statue in the main hall along with that of Sakyamuni (2) Allow you show us to observe between the two faiths, Taoism with the ancestors and suggesting that results from the dialectic of their merger / separation ,
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