Question #1 passport #3 What essential roles did the ubasoku play in the assimilation of the Buddhist religion into the folk culture? Of the most influential people in early Buddhism the ubasoku were the main driving forces in the integration of rural Japan. These traditional shamanistic, Buddhists had come over from China and Korea. In their own country states they had supported the wrong group of politicians or they were just run out of their homelands for …showed first 75 words of 625 total…

…showed last 75 words of 625 total…to the fact that the ubasoku were rather intelligent people, who were able to convince the simpler rural peoples of Japan. The ubasoku had to be smart enough to escape imminent death in their homeland and to navigate the difficult waters between Korea and Japan. The advances that they possessed did not hurt them either. Many of the ubasoku were intelligent enough to make a career out of simply being a holly person. Bibliography none