Wikipedia's article on Buddhism in Japan, community-edited. Reliable for its own account of the 538/552 dating controversy over Buddhism's official introduction from Baekje: the Nihon Shoki's traditional 552 date is now widely doubted by scholars because 552 was chosen to align with the Buddhist doctrine of mappo, the degenerate age, a numerological rather than a historical motive, while 538, drawn from the Gangoji engi and the Jogu Shotoku Hoo teisetsu, is increasingly favored; the article names this as a live scholarly disagreement rather than resolving it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Japan
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3, but cited specifically for its own account of a named scholarly dating dispute (538 versus 552) rather than for a settled fact, which is the honest use of a tier-3 source on a contested date. NotesUsed for the 538/552 dating controversy over Buddhism's official introduction to Japan from Baekje.
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