[Automatic Nate]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Pooeypants)

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by
This is a bit off topic, but in talking to missionaries who work outside Beijing, I've heard that at least Chinese Buddhism usually involves a number of household gods and local spirits--they're always talking about people going to the town gods' shrines and what not. Out in the country, outside the reach of the government, quite a bit of god-activity accompanies Buddhism.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
That's actually Confusicism (sp?) mixed in with Buddhism, the worship of ancestors and a pantheon of Gods (Taoism?). It was integrated with Buddhism and thus spreading itself across China.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Fair enough. My point was only that the "Buddhist who's more philosophical than religious" is a character that one usually only finds among the wealthier, better-educated populations in China. I did frame that poorly, though.