INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kasyapa Matanga or Jia Yemoteng turned into an Indian Buddhist monk who’s historically believed to have first brought Buddhism to China withinside the 1st century CE.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was brought to China by Buddhist monks from India during the latter part of the Han dynasty (ca. 150 CE) and took over a century to become assimilated into Chinese culture. One of the key forces of Buddhism’s success was Daoism.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is said that during the same period when the first two Indian Buddhist missionaries Kasyapa Matanga and Dharmaraksa came to Luoyang, some other Buddhist missionaries visited South China and were received by Prince Liu Ying of Chu.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hotei. Budai (Chinese: ; pinyin: Bùdài; Korean: , romanized: Podae; Japanese: , romanized: Hotei; Vietnamese: Bố Đại) was a Chinese monk who is often identified with and venerated as Maitreya Buddha in Chan Buddhism. With the spread of Chan Buddhism, he also came to be venerated in Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.