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12 October, 19:35

Explain each Buddhist influence by clearly identifying the Buddhist belief or practice and how it influenced pop culture

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  1. 12 October, 19:51
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    After a long period of commercial intercourse, there appear among the crowd of barbarians both good persons and

    bad, unevenly. Consequently there are those who smuggle opium to seduce the Chinese people and so cause the

    spread of the poison to all provinces. Such persons who only care to profit themselves, and disregard their harm to

    others, are not tolerated by the laws of heaven and are unanimously hated by human beings. His Majesty the

    Emperor, upon hearing of this, is in a towering rage. He has sent me, his commissioner, to come to Kwangtung, and

    to investigate and settle this matter.

    All those people in China who sell opium or smoke opium should

    receive the death penalty. We have however received a specially

    extended favor from his Majesty the Emperor, who considers that

    for those who voluntarily surrender can be excused them from

    punishment. But as for those who again violate the opium

    prohibition, it is difficult for the law to pardon them repeatedly.

    Having established new regulations, we presume that the ruler of

    your honorable country, who takes delight in our culture and

    whose disposition is inclined towards us, must be able to instruct

    the various barbarians to observe the law with care. It is only

    necessary to explain to them the advantages and disadvantages

    and then they will know that the legal code of the Celestial Court

    must be absolutely obeyed with awe.

    We find that your country is sixty or seventy thousand li [3 li

    equals one mile] from China. Yet there are barbarian ships that

    strive to come here for trade for the purpose of making a great

    profit. The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians. That

    is to say, the great profit made by barbarians is all taken from the

    rightful share of China. By what right do they then in return use

    the poisonous drug to injure the Chinese people? Even though

    the barbarians may not necessarily intend to do us harm, yet in

    coveting profit to an extreme, they have no regard for injuring

    others.

    Let us ask, where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your

    country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. In the London metropolis where you

    dwell, as also in Scotland, Ireland, and other such places, no opium whatever is produced. Since it is not permitted

    to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on to the harm of other countries - how

    much less to China!
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