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BUDDHISM INFO DUMP

Tagol/Rise of Buddhism

 * 560 BCE - 400 BCE: Life of Siddhārtha Gautama (or equivalent name in Tiandi lore) (The Buddha), born somewhere in North/Central Tagol (?)
 * 380 BCE - 260 BCE: Early Buddhist councils, Tagol polities convert to Buddhism, probably some stand in for Indo-Greek Kingdoms that arose IRL ? (Maybe central Yoju invasion?)
 * 250 BCE: Maurya Empire / Ashoka like figure spread Buddhism east into Jungju and into central Yoju (later Western/Northern Yoju)
 * 220 - 20 BCE: establishment of Theravada; Pali Canon (20ish BCE)

Arrival of Buddhism in Sinju

 * 1st century ACE: Buddhism arrives in Sinju/received by Cheonje court officials via monks and later merchants from Jungju/Tagol (?)
 * 3rd century ACE: Buddhism spreads throughout Northern Sinju; establishment of major universities (?) and monasteries in Central Sinju

Fusen

 * 500 ACE: Arrival of Buddhism to Fusen from Jeongmi; practiced by Jeongmian immigrant/refugee community, supported by Ise Clan (utilized to usurp power of rival clans who relied on traditional priesthood)
 * 600 ACE: Buddhism encouraged as part of adoption of Cheonje/mainland ideals under the Tenyaku Emperor
 * 640 ACE: Shoten-shu developed; syncretic understanding of Buddhist and traditional Nido/Nichido cosmology
 * 800 ACE: Tendai, Pure Land, Shingon (esoteric) exist as major schools of Buddhist thought
 * 1100 - 1200 ACE: Proliferation of major Fusense Buddhist schools (not!Rinzai, not!Nichiren, not!JodoShu)
 * 1250 ACE: Jodo-shu Pure land promoted by Emperor Enpyo; Nam-Myoho-Renge-Ko ban (1250-1320) sees Nichiren sects/schools splinter and move eastward into Bangju