Tang Dynasty And Fodaojiao

In Chinese history,Buddhism as a foreign lands religious culture and Taoism as t he Chinese native culture, have gone through dialogue, struggle and fusion.To the sui and tang dynasties,both have became the incomparable character in the Chinese though t culture, politics economic and other fields.At the beginning of the tang dynasty, Bud dhism whose mass base is strong,is the most prosperous,while Taoism forces is weak. But Taoism and LiTang dynasty climbed to the genetic relationship, for what Taoism got extraordinarily favour by the ruler of all LiTang gardeners.From TangGaoZu, the e mperor taizong, tang dynasty exalt way after first Buddha "once a ChaoFeng done for ZhouWuWang wu zetian" Buddha first after the word ", and then to TangZhongZong and TangRuiZong acceptance of the "two teach coexist, is in no particular order," an d then into the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.When Emperor Xuanzong of Tan g ascended the throne, there were too many Buddhist monks and nuns. At that time,T aoist temple had possessed much of the land.Pseudo monks sprang up so as to escape from taxes. All above had great effect on the government’s financial revenue and the number of corveeEmperor Xuanzong of Tang carried out a series of policies for Fo DaoJiao in order to meet the rule of feudalism political needs as to use religious reas on governing body. As a matter of fact he himself was interested in God medicine of arts. By taking advantage of Taoism, Emperor xuanzong set up LiTang prestige.Aslo, a series of policies such as publishing letters to forgive, ordering everyone to be ho me to hidden a book named "Lao zi", and setting up of metaphysics, and Emperor xu anzongthe’s personally writing notes for the tao-te and so on to support and respect for the Taoism.As far as buddhist is concerned, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang set all ki nds of restrictions on it to restrain its development. Actually he had not completely s hut it out, because of preferentia treatment on the belief in tantra, ritual for eminent monks, building the temple, and the personally note taken of the diamond sutra.Then, we can come to a conclusion that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang’s the final attitude tow ards Buddhism and Taoism is that he makes use of both while he is in favor of Taoi sm. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang’s different attitude and policy between Buddha and T aoism on the religious has had a broad and profound influence on the tang dynasty religious, social, economic, and cultural thoughts and other aspects.