Презентация на тему к открытому уроку Religions of China and Japan

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with a great diversity of religious beliefs. The main

religions are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism.

China. Currently China has 13,000-some Buddhist temples and about

200,000 Buddhist monks and nuns. Among them are 120,000 lamas and nuns, more than 1,700 Living Buddhas, and 3,000-some temples of Tibetan Buddhism and nearly 10,000 Bhiksu and senior monks and more than 1,600 temples of Pali Buddhism.

history of more than 1,700 years. China now has

over 1,500 Taoist temples and more than 25,000 Taoist priests and nuns.

the seventh century. Nowadays in China there are ten

national minorities, including the Hui and Uygur, with a total population of 18 million, whose faith is Islam. Their 30,000-odd mosques are served by 40,000 Imams and Akhunds.

in the seventh century, but it had not spread

widely until after the Opium War in 1840. At present, China has four million Catholics, 4,000 clergy and more than 4,600 churches and meeting houses.

in the early 19th century and spread widely after

the Opium War. There are about 10 million Protestants, more than 18,000 clergy, more than 12,000 churches and 25,000-some meeting places throughout China.

are practiced in Japan but most people follow Shinto

or Buddhism. Many Japanese people do not identify as exclusively belonging to just one religion, but incorporate features of both religions into their daily lives in a process known as syncretism.

A Japanese Buddhist monk in Kyoto

religions and is the indigenous religion. Japan is one

of the only major countries that have many Shinto people. Shinto originated in prehistoric times, as a religion with respect for nature and in particular certain sacred sites.

in the sixth century, from the Southern part of

the Korean peninsula kingdom of Baekje, where the Baekje king sent the Japanese emperor a picture of the Buddha and some sutras. Japanese aristocrats built many Buddhist statues and temples in the capital at Nara, and then at the later capital of Heian.