During the Song and Yuan dynasties,the Buddhist community in Shandong had close contact with the Jiangnan area,and through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Yellow River joint transportation,the written or engraved Buddhist sutras and the gold,copper and wooden statues of Buddha arrived at the rele-vant monasteries in Jiangnan,which favorably promoted the cultural exchanges of Buddhism between the north and the south.
The Grand Canal(from Beijing to Hangzhou)Yellow RiverYuhangThe Puning CollectionBuddhist statues
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