Prevailing in Chang′an, the capital of the Sui and the Tang Dynasty, was a common practice of reciting and explicating Buddhist classics. In those days there were varieties of Buddhist academies and different sizes of Buddhist schools in the capital, which laid a foundation for the rise of the Chinesecharacteristic Buddhist sect. It was just in such cultural background that six of the eight major sects of Chinese Buddhism took shape in Chang′an.

Chang′an in times of the Sui and Tang Dynasty; Buddhism; Buddhist academy; Buddhist school