Nagarjuna is credited for founding Madhyamaka School of Buddhism with his disciple. Nagarjuna is also one of the most important Buddhist philosophers of his time around (ca. 150-250 CE). He had written many treaties and greatly contributed to Buddhism.
During the middle kingdom, the power of the nobility greatly declined. Most of the power was taken over by the vizierate.
Buddhism is the most dominate in China.
The form of Buddhism that became most common in Japan was Zen Buddhism
The form of Buddhism that became most common in Japan was Zen Buddhism
Buddhism
Zen Buddhism originated in China. It was a blending of Buddhist practices that had been imported from India with daoism. It then spread to Korea and Japan. So, historically, the three nations most closely associated with zen Buddhism are China, Korea, and Japan. It later spread to southeast Asis as well as to the West.
A Buddhism spirt
Buddhism is the most prevalent religion
Most Vietnamese are Buddhism and ancestry belief, some are Christian, but most are Catholic.
The most dominant religion is buddhism,then taoism,the islam.
This greatly depends on how you define a Nation verus city states\ tribes \ regions. The oldest conventional "Nation" as most people would define nation as would be China. After that depending on continent you could say Mayans, Aztecs, Rome, Etheopia, Egypt, and ancient Babalyon would be some of the earliest "Nations" as most would recognize but depending on how you define a "Nation" your milage may vary.