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Even after becoming a most influential Buddhist in China,
Chan Buddhism kept a lot of Indian remains.
First of all texts, some of these texts were rewritten into Chinese and translated
in different ways, but anyway, they still kept all the ideas that came from India.
First of all, Chan Buddhism very highly praised, several sutras and
first of all it's a Vimalakirti Sutra, Nirvana Sutra, Lotus Sutra.
Even today it's very famous.
Lankavatara Sutra which we already spoke about, and Diamond Sutra.
And Diamond Sutra and Lotus Sutra are the two sutras that are so-called
the starting point of every teaching in today's Buddhist monasteries.
So Chan Buddhism is not a completely independent stream.
As there are other Buddhist schools in China.
It's close connected to the Buddhist idea from India.
But these ideas were re-thinking and re-written.
Two main points became most important ideas of Chan Buddhism.
Chan Buddhists decided to combine two ways of as it's called the entrance
to Chan Buddhist School [FOREIGN] to enter to the clan Buddhism.
The first one, its called the principle li.
The main idea,
the main theory it means first of all meditation and general contemplation.
So you have to contemplate to meditate and to look inside you.
To look inside you, you have to find Buddha inside you.
But this meditation is only the passive way,
its not the only way to trying Buddhism.
Another point is sort of the active way, so
they entrance through actions or through some acts.
It means xing.
Xing in Chinese means action or any effort.
So it means that Chan Buddhism combine in two ways, the practical and theoretical.
The passive and active way.
That's why Chan Buddhism became distinguished from any other schools of
Buddhism that were much enclosed inside Buddhist monasteries.
So Chan Buddhists proposed completely different approaches to the enlightenment.
You can live by the layman life.
You can follow your own profession, or
your own ideas, or any way by your own way of life.
But at the same time you have to combine two things, practical and theoretical.
You can do everything that you already do in this life, but
at the same time you have to rethink, and
maybe revamp everything that you already did in this life.
So it means that you have to be much more concentrated,
much more concentrated of everything that you do, and
you have to do the same but by the completely clear and pure of mind.
So that's a combination of the practical and theoretical in Chan Buddhism.