- Call For a New Buddhism - - Claiming that the West must develop its own Jeffersonian Buddhism based on noble principles of dignity and respect for all.
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- Criticism of Buddhism - - Criticism of its content and religious core but praise of its social efforts and politics.
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- 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 well as Buddhism.
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