Criticism of Buddhism
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Criticism of its content and religious core but praise of its social efforts & politics
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Han Yu's Memorial to Buddhism
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One of the leaders in the Confucian counterattack on Buddhism was the classical prose stylist and poet Han Yu (768-824 CE), who in 819 CE composed this vitriolic polemic attacking Buddhism. A champion of rationalism, Han Yu wished to suppress Daoism as well as Buddhism.