China is home to a variety of religious beliefs, with the three major world religions – Buddhism, Catholicism and Islamism – all with large congregations, organizations and businesses in the country. Buddhism in China mainly includes language Han Chinese Buddhism spread in China in 2 BC, the Tibetan Buddhism, which spread into Tibet in the 7th Century, Buddhism and Pali language, spread to China in the 13th Century. Tibetan Buddhism refers to Tibetan Buddhism, and is also known as Lamaism.
Tibetan Buddhism has exerted extensive and profound effects on the Tibetan ethnic group. The spread of Buddhism in Tibet in the 7th Century gradually infiltrate Tibet’s history, politics, economy, culture, exchanges and habits and customs to become more widely revered religion of Tibetans. Prolonged ethnic cultural exchanges also contributed to Tibetan Buddhism, the way to Mongolia, Tue, yugu, Luoba, Lhoba, Naxi, Purna nationalitites and ethnic minorities in China. Buddhism was widely spread in the revered Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, and Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. He also has his way into Sikkim, Benazir Bhutto, Nepal, People’s Republic of Mongolia and the Russian Republic of Buryatia.
More than 1,400 Tibetan monasteries and other religious centers have been renovated and opened following the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951. Chinese government and policies for religious freedom enable 34,000 monks from several monasteries free study Buddhist sutras and hold various types of Buddhist activities in their respective monasteries. In addition, the broad masses of religious have set up shrines, Buddha halls and sutra recitation rooms in their homes, and undertake pilgrimages to holy sites.
