History of Da Jin Men. The Golden Gate of the East.
Spread of Buddhism in North America
by Tatsu Saitomori (2556. 2012 AD)
The 2nd Golden Era is known throughout Yeguoren or Asian American as the second great expansion of Asian Political Control and Culture throughout the Western Hemisphere. The extent of this period is a much debated subject amongst historians and scholars due to a differance in pace of events on either side of the Pacific Ocean. There is unanimous agreement that the Second Golden Era began in 1551 following the Maidu War and the discovery of the Inca. The tenuous link between the home lands of the settlers and immigrants to the Golden Gate to some scholars plays an important link while others disregard events across the seas. For those that do include events across the seas they largely see this period as being marred by Invasion of Korea by Tokugawa and note the internal strife caused in the Golden Gate, as well as several attacks by pirates based in Japan against Golden Gate shipping (which sparked a fear of invasion). As such these scholars say the Golden Age ended in the western year 1600. Those who do not take account of events and even some international scholars say that the 2nd Golden Age of the Golden Gate ended in the 1630s between the invasion of Ming China by the Manchu.
Nontheless, in part the rise of the 2nd Golden Era was in part caused by the Emperor Jiajong and a few of his successors who had very Pro-Taoist and Anti-Buddhist policies. Their crackdown on Buddhist worship would cause a exodus of respected and learned scholars of Buddhism to settle in the Golden Gate. Though it was not only Chinese Buddhists of the Chan sects that would travel to the Golden Gate, but representatives of Japanese and Korean Sects as well. The meshing of widely different Buddhist practices in the Golden Gate would lead to the 1st Buddhist Council of Yeguo relativly early in 1557. It is regarded by some international Buddhists as either the Fourth Mahayana Council or just the Fifth Buddhist Council. There representatives from different sects agreed on a cooperative mission to be undertaken by all Buddhist leaders in Yeguo to spread Buddhism and encourage the teaching of their different doctrines. Overtime new Buddhist doctrine sects would emerge and is regarded by the international Buddhist community under the blanket term the Many Handed Path.
The first Buddhist missions following the Yeguo Buddhist Council were already underway in the heartland of the Golden Gate as Buddhist Missionaries acted as liaisons to the defeated Maidu and offered health services. No one at that time could have conceived that within fifty years Buddhist missions would spread eastward across the Eastern Mountains into the Ma He Desert (Mojave).
The first officials mission and most important though occured in 1560 when a delegation of over a hundred Monks traveled to the Golden Gate trade port of Li Ma (Lima, Peru). There they traveled to the court of the Inca Emperor Topa and successfully petitioned to set up several Pagoda Temples throughout the Inca Empire. Mostly in exchange for the monks' handy and desired knowledge of treating the sick and keeping the poor in favorable disposition. Their actions culminated in the official establishment of Buddhism as the national religion of the Inca people by 1613.
Spread of Buddhism in North America
by Tatsu Saitomori (2556. 2012 AD)
The 2nd Golden Era is known throughout Yeguoren or Asian American as the second great expansion of Asian Political Control and Culture throughout the Western Hemisphere. The extent of this period is a much debated subject amongst historians and scholars due to a differance in pace of events on either side of the Pacific Ocean. There is unanimous agreement that the Second Golden Era began in 1551 following the Maidu War and the discovery of the Inca. The tenuous link between the home lands of the settlers and immigrants to the Golden Gate to some scholars plays an important link while others disregard events across the seas. For those that do include events across the seas they largely see this period as being marred by Invasion of Korea by Tokugawa and note the internal strife caused in the Golden Gate, as well as several attacks by pirates based in Japan against Golden Gate shipping (which sparked a fear of invasion). As such these scholars say the Golden Age ended in the western year 1600. Those who do not take account of events and even some international scholars say that the 2nd Golden Age of the Golden Gate ended in the 1630s between the invasion of Ming China by the Manchu.
Nontheless, in part the rise of the 2nd Golden Era was in part caused by the Emperor Jiajong and a few of his successors who had very Pro-Taoist and Anti-Buddhist policies. Their crackdown on Buddhist worship would cause a exodus of respected and learned scholars of Buddhism to settle in the Golden Gate. Though it was not only Chinese Buddhists of the Chan sects that would travel to the Golden Gate, but representatives of Japanese and Korean Sects as well. The meshing of widely different Buddhist practices in the Golden Gate would lead to the 1st Buddhist Council of Yeguo relativly early in 1557. It is regarded by some international Buddhists as either the Fourth Mahayana Council or just the Fifth Buddhist Council. There representatives from different sects agreed on a cooperative mission to be undertaken by all Buddhist leaders in Yeguo to spread Buddhism and encourage the teaching of their different doctrines. Overtime new Buddhist doctrine sects would emerge and is regarded by the international Buddhist community under the blanket term the Many Handed Path.
The first Buddhist missions following the Yeguo Buddhist Council were already underway in the heartland of the Golden Gate as Buddhist Missionaries acted as liaisons to the defeated Maidu and offered health services. No one at that time could have conceived that within fifty years Buddhist missions would spread eastward across the Eastern Mountains into the Ma He Desert (Mojave).
The first officials mission and most important though occured in 1560 when a delegation of over a hundred Monks traveled to the Golden Gate trade port of Li Ma (Lima, Peru). There they traveled to the court of the Inca Emperor Topa and successfully petitioned to set up several Pagoda Temples throughout the Inca Empire. Mostly in exchange for the monks' handy and desired knowledge of treating the sick and keeping the poor in favorable disposition. Their actions culminated in the official establishment of Buddhism as the national religion of the Inca people by 1613.
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