"The hostile wrath of Confucianism toward Buddhist monasteries led to Emperor Wu Tsang's campaign of annihilation in the year 844. But Confucianism primarily justifies itself by the argument that the monasteries distracted people from useful work."
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Max Weber, Religion of China (1915), as translated by H., H. Gerth (1951), p. 159
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