Shaolin Kung Fu History
- History of how the Shaolin monks first originated in China, with details of their practice
- http://members.ozemail.com.au/~kfmaster/history.htm

Dafo
- The worlds largest Buddha, in Leshan, China.
- http://www.gluckman.com/LeshanBuddha.html

Diamond Sutra: The World's Earliest Dated Printed Book
- A copy of the Diamond Sutra is the world's oldest example of dated block printing.
- http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/diamond.html

Han Yu's Memorial to Buddhism
- One of the leaders in the Confucian counterattack on Buddhism was the classical prose stylist and poet Han Yu (768-824 CE), who in 819 CE composed this vitriolic polemic attacking Buddhism. A champion of rationalism, Han Yu wished to suppress Daoism as we
- http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/hanyu.html

The Legend of Miao-shan
- In China, Kuan-yin (Avalokitesvara) came to be most frequently worshipped in female form as the Goddess of Mercy. This transformation from an originally male deity into a female one seems to have occurred sometime during the Northern Sung dynasty (960-112
- http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/miao-sha.html

A Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms
- An account of the (394-414CE)journey by Fa-hsien and his companions. They visited as many of the Buddhist sacred shrines as they could, especially those associated with the presence of the Buddha. The selections presented here show the reasons for the est
- http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/faxian.html

A Defense of Buddhism vs. Confucianism
- A defense of Buddhism written to refute some of the charges against the new religion from India by Confucian and other Chinese. While the author and date of composition are uncertain, this kind of tract was common in China under the Southern Dynasties (42
- http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/dispos.html

Chinese Doctrinal Classifications of Buddhism
- In the fifth and sixth centuries CE, Chinese Buddhists employed p'an-chiao as a hermeneutical strategy to reconcile the discrepancies among the different teachings believed to have been taught by the Buddha. By resorting to the doctrine of expedient means
- http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/doctrina.html