The Study Of Puppet Manchukuo's Buddhism Policy During The Period Of The Northeast China Be Occupied By Japan

Northeast China Region come down to the colony of Japanese imperialist after Mukden Incident, and then set up the puppet Manchukuo state, so the puppet government began a full range of colonial rule in the Northeast China. In order to consolidate colonial regime and maintain colonial rule, the puppet government cracked down on Anti-Japan War like a rising wind and scudding clouds, while the puppet government realized that the masses must be mind control besides military means. Religion that belonged to mental culture had to take a hit, and was forced to succumb to the Japanese imperialist aggression policy as an effective tool of obscurantisms and enslavement rule used by the puppet government.Buddhism had an important influence in the Northeast region, not only Tibetan Buddhism played an important role in Mongolia, but also the Northeast public had widespread belief in Chinese Buddhism. In the meantime, Japanese Buddhism because of frequent missionary work became a force to be reckoned with after the Russo-Japanese War. Consequently, Buddhism naturally became the largely used object by the puppet government, and unveiled a series of Buddhist policies. After the establishment of Manchukuo, the puppet government set up various types of religious authorities and promulgated religionary decrees to control and transform Buddhism. The Buddhist policies based largely on total resistance divided into two historical stages, "Buddhism kingly way" period and "Missionary work of Shinto" period.In the implementation of the policies, the puppet government adopted characteristic of different measures in accordance with Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism. The puppet government's Buddhist policies were the thorough colonial cultivation and obscurantism practices entirely servicing for imperialist aggression, and the essence was a kind of colonial rule that suppressed the thought of people of the Northeast China, so they had grumousinspissate colonial. The puppet government's Buddhist policies played an enormous auxiliary part to maintain colonial rule, meanwhile, they generated very negative impact and hazard. Not only deceived the public, manipulated followers, and killed the Anti-Japanese consciousness of the people of the Northeast, but also caused tremendous damage to the normal development of Buddhism in the Northeast.This paper aims to analyze and research the relevant historical materials to further understand that the puppet government colonized the Northeast people using Buddhist policies. At the same time, this paper will further reveal the Japanese imperialist aggression against our country and the calamities of the Northeast people, to refute the Japanese right-wingers about denying the Japanese history of shameless babblings.