Influence Of Buddhism On Japanese Culture

The Asuka period saw the gradual growth of Chinese and Korean artistic and religious influences on Japanese culture. Chinese influence grew in the Nara Period as the Japanese court began to model itself in a Chinese form, and Buddhism continued to spread throughout Japan, while integrating within it the Japanese religion of Shinto.
The triad, housed in the Yakushiji temple, reveals Chinese and central Asian influences in its anatomical definition, naturalism and realistic drapery. Chinese influenced Buddhist thought founded by Kūkai who traveled to China and studied Indian and Chinese Buddhism, as well as Chinese calligraphy and poetry.

Kūkai greatly impressed the emperors who succeeded Emperor Kammu, and also generations of Japanese, not