| A | B |
|---|
| The monastaries were seen | as a physical threat |
| As the Tang Dynasty began to decline, the | large land holdings or Buddhist monastaries were seen as a fiscal threat to the state, for they removed land and people from tax registers. |
| During the late Tang Dynasty, | the once discredited Confucianism had begun to experience revival and Confucian scholars started to attack Buddhism as a foreign religion |
| Persecution of Buddhism | Destruction of 44,600 monastaries and temples |
| Buddhism never fully | recovered. It is a secondary tradition. |
| The persecution clearly paved the way | for China'sreligious and ideological centralization |
| Confucianism re-established | itself as the dominant religion |
| Significance of the Song Dynasty | Most important dynasty |
| Song dynasty had a minimum of | 5 defining characteristics |
| 5 defining characteristics of Song dynasty included | absolute monarchy; centralized bureaucratic system of government, governing Elite consisting of scholar officials, civil service, and neo-Confucianism |
