Since Buddhism was introduced into the Han Dynasty during Yongping period in the Eastern Han Dynasty, almost all Buddhist sects introduced into the Han cultural circle and lived in the Han Dynasty for a period of time belong to Mahayana. Before Buddhism was introduced into China, there was a mature spread of good dharma in the world, and the Han people were used to the way of "noting me through the six classics" when dealing with the teachings of the sages, which led to the emergence of a number of new sects in China that were not found in India and closely integrated with the cultural tradition of China. After the Huichang law disaster, a large number of beliefs were destroyed in one fell swoop, which made the sects introduced from India and had to rely on various beliefs suffer a devastating blow and gradually declined from then on. Those new sects with a high degree of "China" and indifferent or even contemptuous attitude towards Confucian classics gradually became the mainstream of Buddhism in the Han Dynasty, which lasted for thousands of years.

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the gradual opening of the country, the Buddhist circles in the Han Dynasty, which had been behind closed doors for thousands of years, began to contact the Buddhist sects in the non-Han cultural circle that had never been interested in looking directly at them before. It has brought great impact to the Buddhist community in the Han Dynasty.

"I don't forget to dig wells when I eat water." The spread of Southern Buddhism in the Han Dynasty should be attributed to the incomparable pioneer master Taixu in the 20th century. Master Tai Xu visited Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and other Southern Buddhism countries twice in A.D. 1928 and A.D. 1939, and made a report on Sino-Tibetan religion in A.D. 1940 (later written as "From Bali Buddhism to Today's Bodhisattva"), introducing Sri Lanka to the south from the perspective of a loyal Mahayana Buddhist believer. As a Mahayana Buddhist master who is used to the Mahayana-Hinayana way of thinking, he is so amazed at the "Hinayana" Sri Lankan Buddhism. At that time, there was indeed a sense of "shock", which made people stunned. Later, the master single-handedly brokered an agreement between Han and Sri Lankan Buddhism in exchange for foreign students and wizards assigned to preach Buddhism. History has proved that Master Taixu's views on the current situation of Southern Buddhism in Sri Lanka are not very profound and accurate, and some of them are wishful "idealism", but the master pointed out the profound crisis behind the superficial phenomena of Buddhism in Myanmar, Thailand and other countries. It is worth pondering by every Buddhist practitioner who wishes to stay in Buddhism for a long time.

With the great help of Master Taixu, Master Shen (A.D. 19 16- 1985) and Master French were sent to Sri Lanka to study Southern Buddhism. In A.D. 1946, Master Shen arrived in Sri Lanka. After a period of study, under the guidance of the Sri Lankan Pali writer pa~n~nananda, he began to replace the French master who died in Sri Lanka as a translator of French sentences. The French sentence translated by1953a.c. was published in Hong Kong, which was well received by the teaching community. Master Shen returned to the mainland in 1957A BC. Due to environmental restrictions, he could not live a life of Buddhist precepts. In order to protect the precepts, the master gave up the precepts, and still served as a "Ye Jun Buddhist" in the Buddhist teaching and the translation of Confucian classics in China Buddhist College. According to the Buddhist system and translation principles established by Master Xuanzang, the translation of two "textbook-style" Buddhist scriptures outside Tibet has been completed successively, which played a decisive role in the spread of Southern Buddhism in the Han Dynasty (including Taiwan Province Province), and was enough to guide the religious practice related to Buddhism in Shangzuo and spread to South China (including Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan). At the same time, the Department of Oriental Studies in Peking University with Ji Xianlin and Jin Kemu as the core and the Institute of East Asian Studies in China Academy of Social Sciences have also trained a number of Balinese writers, such as Ms. Guo Liangluan, Mr. Deng Dianchen, Ms. Yedda Chiu and Mr. Huang Baosheng, and put the classic collections "Big Sister", "Big Sister Ni Jie" and "Ben Sheng Jing" in a small part of Bali Sanzang. Three episodes? The 65th meridian, branch? Five episodes? 175 classic and dragon series? 3 1 Jing? Sigal sutra, etc. -Translated into Chinese one after another.

After the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek clique moved to Taiwan Province, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have been in a state of civil war, and Taiwan Province Province is unstable internally. Many people have traveled across the ocean to Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia. Because of the new generation of monks and laymen who are proficient in righteousness, such as Master Taixu and Master Yinshun, they have a deep understanding of primitive Buddhism and Buddhist teaching methods represented by Agama, as well as (Ajiang) Cha, Buddha Dasha and Luo? Inspired by Rakhulla Valpola, Mahahashi, Pao and other famous monks and their works, many monks and laymen also went to prosperous Thailand and other places in Southern Buddhism to learn Southern Buddhism's teachings and basic meditation methods. At the same time, Buddhist sages from all over the world began to be invited to preach in Taiwan Province Province. After more than 20 years of brewing, Southern Buddhism has entered a period of great development since 1970s. Local Buddhist monks, such as Farming monks who came back from school, have set up the first Buddhist monk group in the Fayu Dojo in Chiayi. At the same time, the local dharma-protector lay man has begun to assist the Buddhist monks to undertake the task of spreading Buddhism on the island, and has begun to radiate to Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao with the help of tools such as the Internet, making Southern Buddhism in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao,

Although Southern Buddhism was introduced into the Han Dynasty for a short time, it developed rapidly, especially in Taiwan Province Province. According to the version of Nanzang translated by Japanese Mizuno Hong Wen, Taiwan Province Yuan Heng Temple translated Nanzang into Chinese with reference to the original versions of Bali in other countries. Unfortunately, the quality of this translation is not high, and due to economic reasons, the copyright has been retained for 50 years, which is quite regrettable. Now someone in Taiwan Province Province intends to retranslate Sanzang. Compared with the translation of barris Sanzang, which was published hundreds or even thousands of years after Buddhism was introduced to the south in Myanmar, Thailand and other countries, Han believers can be said to be very lucky; At the same time, a group of monks and folklorists, represented by Mr. Yang Yuwen, Mr. Zeng Yinhu, Ms. Li and Mr. Wen Zongkun, who are proficient in Pali and Buddhism, can make a deeper study of the meaning by using the original Pali language. In recent years, under the guidance of the elder Anurada from Sri Lanka, a group of lay people headed by Mr. Xiao Shiqiu have mastered Pali and have begun to independently translate a number of important Pali Sanzang scriptures into Chinese. (Press: Another Zen World website, https://chanworld.org/, is also translating Nicole into modern Chinese. )

Vipassana is the core practice method of Southern Buddhism, and it has also become a common practice method in Taiwan Province. There are many practitioners in Taiwan Province Province, such as Ajiangcha, Mahaqiao, and Paao, which form a trend of "letting a hundred flowers blossom". Moreover, local southern monks and Buddhist monks have gradually emerged. In addition to the Southern Buddhism disciples themselves, many Buddhists from the Han Dynasty also came to the Southern Zen Dojo to "learn from the scriptures" in order to obtain the effect that "stones from other mountains can attack jade". The late elders of Tiantai Sect in Taiwan Province Province, who specialized in spreading the idea of stopping Tiantai, praised the idea of stopping Tiantai from spreading to the south while promoting the revision of this Sect. At the same time, the prosperity of Buddhism spread to the south also promoted the development of various "new Ahanzong" in Han Dynasty, which was based on the knowledge contained in the four Chinese versions of Agama.

The development of Vipassana in Chinese mainland is relatively late (about ten years), and most of them are concentrated in the circle of intellectuals who can browse Southern Buddhism's literature online (interestingly, most of the people who studied Buddhism in the south in Han Dynasty-whether at home or becoming monks-are intellectuals with modern education and high cultural level), which is related to the lack of special Dojo in Southern Buddhism at present. The Vipassana group of Indian Buddhist s·n· Goenka held a short-term Vipassana training course, which has a history of nearly 20 years. Buddhists from Myanmar and Thailand, such as Bundhit Dasiado, Elder Jedila, Chajayedo, Zen Master Degania, Buddhist Master Bao, Master Indejia, were also invited to the mainland for short-term meditation activities. At the same time, a large number of mainland monks and laymen also embarked on a difficult journey to Myanmar, Thailand and other state-owned Buddhist centers with great monks and virtues. Among them, the Han monks, represented by Mahinda Bhikkhu and Master Wen Jie, returned from Myanmar and took on the heavy responsibility of preaching and teaching meditation. Southern Buddhism Meditation Camp, which is taught by Buddhist monks in Myanmar, has been held many times in Baofeng Temple, Jing 'an, Jiangxi Province, with Master Yan Zhen as the acting abbot. At the same time, a group of monks and nuns represented by Master, Master Long Zang, Master Bao Shengyong, Master Ron Chan, Master Xu Jun, Master Zhaotong and Master Ma have also made many outstanding and irreplaceable contributions to the healthy spread of Buddhism in the Mainland in their respective posts. In Taiwan Province Province, this scene appeared more than twenty years ago. According to this development trend, we can expect to see some "authentic" southern missionaries in Han Dynasty in the near future.

Southern Buddhism is a pure liberation. Its popular ideas for spreading Buddhism to ordinary believers are "giving", "abstinence" and "creating heaven", and its main features are "wanting less and being satisfied", "giving", "enduring humiliation", "observing precepts" and "Prajna", which are different from northern Mahayana Buddhism in concept and practice. At present, the popularity of Buddhism has also spread in Han areas (mainly in Taiwan Province Province, often with the help of the Internet).