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During the Eastern Jin period (317–410 C.E.), Buddhism entered China and the teaching and propagation of the Buddhist classics as well as the mode of their dialog with the Han culture was “geyi.” “Ge” means to measure and “geyi” means that the use of the concepts and doctrines native to Chinese culture to illustrate, interpret, and measure the meaning of the Buddhist texts had already produced new understandings.
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Yue, D. (2016). The Urgency and Difficulty of Cross-cultural Dialog. In: China and the West at the Crossroads. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1116-0_39
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