Relationships of Buddhism and the state in the period of its spread in East and Central Asia

The article is devoted to the principles of the relationship between Buddhism and the state power in the countries of East and Central Asia - in China, Tibet, Mongolia and the eastern part of Russia - Buryatia in the period of its spreading. The economic and social reasons of establishing of Buddhism in China, its attitude to the part of the Wei periods, the two Jin-Western and Eastern authorities, the confrontation of the power apparatus and the Buddhist sangha have been showed there. The justification of the ideological demands of Buddhism in the Eastern Jin period, the attitude to Buddhism in the Tang period, using the Buddhist values by the ruling circles of Tang China as the vehicle for its domestic and foreign policy have been analyzed there. A comparative analysis of the principles of the relationship of Buddhism with the state in China and the countries of Central Asia is conducted. The role of Buddhism in the formation of the Tibetan state, the choice of the way of development of Buddhism in Tibet after the dispute in Samye, its political history, connected with the formation of Buddhist schools involved in the internecine struggle for power, the influence of the Gelug school on the political culture of Tibet, as well as Mongolia And Buryatia. The influence of Buddhism on the ideology of Altan Khan is considered, in his aspirations for the unification of Mongolia. The use of Buddhism by the Manchu conquerors is shown to strengthen their social and political positions in Mongolia, as well as the influence of Mongolia's Buddhism on the formation of Buddhism in Buryatia, the support of the tsarist government for the establishment of Buddhism in Buryatia and the formation of the Buddhist church in the eastern part of Russia.