Question: where is buddhism widely practiced today open study

title: Chinese Buddhism
text: When the famous monk Kumārajīva was captured during the Chinese conquest of the Buddhist kingdom of Kucha , he was imprisoned for many years . When he was released in AD 401 , he immediately took a high place in Chinese Buddhism and was appraised as a great master from the West . He was especially valued by Emperor Yao Xing of the state of Later Qin , who gave him an honorific title and treated him like a god . Kumārajīva revolutionized Chinese Buddhism with his high quality translations ( from AD 402 -- 413 ) , which are still praised for their flowing smoothness , clarity of meaning , subtlety , and literary skill . Due to the efforts of Kumārajīva , Buddhism in China became not only recognized for its practice methods , but also as high philosophy and religion . The arrival of Kumārajīva also set a standard for Chinese translations of Buddhist texts , effectively doing away with previous concept - matching systems .