Title Topic: How was Buddhism sinified in China?

Historical China represents a cultural, and, most of the time as well, a political unity. But the country was not completely ignorant of or entirely untouched by outside influences. There had always been contact with Central Asia and India, the center of another great civilization at the time. And this happened especially through the spread of the Buddhist religion. India, in contrast to China, had often been more politically fragmented than unified. For this reason, India never posed a real threat to China and her sense of self-importance. As a religion of foreign origin from India to China, Buddhism in the Chinese context, between Islam and Judaism on the one side as ethnic religions, and Buddhism and West Christianity on the other side as missionary religions. However, the beginnings of Buddhism behaved somewhat differently to Chinese culture, arousing much more attention as well as controversy as it attempted to make its impact upon the Chinese society.
At 1st century A.D. or earl...