Since the Han, Chinese ideology has been based on the ethics of Confucianism combined with the imperial structure of the Qin. By the mid 600’s the ideology fused with Mahayana Buddhism giving China an overtly religious civilization. With the Tang, the connections with to the larger Buddhist cultural sphere ultimately fell, which was eventually blamed for the fall of the Tang (von Sivers, Desnoyers, and Stow 352). The Song dynasty then blended the Teachings of Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism to create a system called Neo-Confucianism (von Sivers, Desnoyers and Stow 352). During the Tang , Confucians began to criticize Buddhism since it was patronized and subsidized by the Tang Court (von Sivers, Desnoyers, and Stow 355). Their main contention
