Chapters: 75 Births, 75 Deaths, 75 Establishments, Emperor Ming of Han, Caerwent, Venta Silurum, List of State Leaders in 75, Lucius Vipstanus Messalla, Chen Mu, Guo Xun, 75 Ad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Emperor Ming of Han, (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: h n m ng d; Wade-Giles: Han Ming-ti), (28-75) was second emperor of the Chinese Eastern Han Dynasty. He was the second son of Emperor Guangwu. It was during Emperor Ming's reign that Buddhism began to spread into China. One night, he is said to have dreamed of a golden man or golden men. The next day he told his ministers, and the minister Zhong Hu explained to him that he probably dreamed of Buddha in India. The emperor then sent a delegation of 18 headed by Cai Yin, Qin Jing and Wang Zun to seek Buddhism. They returned from Afghanistan with an image of Gautama Buddha, the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters and two eminent monks. The next year, the emperor ordered the construction of White Horse Temple three li west of the capital Luoyang, to remember the horse that carried back the sutras. It was China's first Buddhist temple. Emperor Ming's brother Liu Ying, the Prince of Chu, became the first well-known Buddhist. The above story is considered as a "pious legend" (Z rcher 1972: 22). Emperor Ming was a hard-working, able administrator of the empire who showed integrity and demanded integrity from his officials. However, a major downside to his personality was his overeagerness to punish. When his brothers Liu Ying the Prince of Chu and Liu Yan the Prince of Huaiyang were accused of plotting against him, he pursued the matters so harshly that several tens of thousands of people were executed as part of the plot, even though the vast majority of those people were in all ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=343300