Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s4.t3.73

v1.c7.s4.t3.73

Kang Falang was one of the disseminators of Chinese “comparison” Buddhism. This method was prevailing for a period but Dao’an thought that this method was against the true meaning of Buddhism, and didn’t allow his disciples to follow and this method then was abandoned afterwards. Kang Falang travelled to the west for Buddhist Sutra and taught Faxian when he came back which was earlier than Yuan Chwang spreading the Consciousness-only theory of Faxian and promoted the spread and communication of Faxian in China.