... and that it was foreign, led to the teachings' unpopularity. After the fall of the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty brought on more hope to the religion. There were three Chinese Buddhists who started to establish different types of Buddhism. A man named Hui Yuan started the pure Land Buddhists; he focused on the devotion to Buddha. He thought that if the people would be devout Buddhists, then they would be re-born into the Western Paradise or Pure Land. A man named Chih-I who believed in the Tien Tai Buddhism started the second. He decided that the followers should study the Lotus Sutra. The last of the three teachers was Hui-neng who founded Zen Buddhism (Patton). This man believed that the people should be hostile toward any and all scriptures, and that the people should not meditate. These three people believed in the same yet different beliefs of Buddhism. In ...

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