During the Han Dynasty and period of disunification, the ideas of Buddhism spread rapidly across China because people needed comfort and justification for why their lives were terrible due to the chaos and turmoil of the times. In contrast, during the Tang Dynasty and time of relative stability, people experienced an improvement in the quality of their lives, so Buddhism did not serve the same purposes of comfort and justification as it did previously. In addition, the Tang Imperial Court sought…
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