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| 845 |
| | | On the orders of the T'ang emperor, 4000 monasteries are destroyed in China and 250,000 monks and nuns forced into secular life | |
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| 868 |
| | | The world's first known printed book, a Diamond Sutra, is commissioned by a Buddhist monk in honour of his parents | |
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| 868 |
| | | The Diamand Sutra has as a frontispiece a printed woodcut depicting an enthroned Buddha | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Buddhist, Hindu and Jain shrines are carved from the rock in the cave temples of Ellora, in India | |
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| 1064 |
| | | Su Sung, a Buddhist monk, develops in China the principle of the escapement in his tower clock worked by a water wheel | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | Zen Buddhism reaches Japan from China and appeals greatly to the new samurai class | |
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| 1252 |
| | | A huge bronze sculpture, known as Daibutsu and cast in Kamakura, depicts Amida, the Amitabha Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism | |
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| 1274 |
| | | The Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274 seems to confirm the doom and disaster foretold by the Buddhist prophet Nichiren | |
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| 1338 |
| | | The first Dalai Lama dies in 1338 and is discovered to have been reincarnated in a boy born in 1340 | |
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| 1356 |
| | | Zhu Yuanzhang, a one-time Buddhist novice now leading a major rebellion against the Yuan dynasty, captures Nanjing and makes it his capital | |
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