Religion in Northeast China

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rdf:langString Guanmin Temple of Chinese Buddhism in Suifenhe, Heilongjiang.

rdf:langString Bethel Protestant Church in Harbin.

rdf:langString Hengshan Temple of Chinese Buddhism in Lushunkou, Dalian, Liaoning.

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rdf:langString A Russian Orthodox church in Xiangfang, Harbin, Heilongjiang.

rdf:langString The Xita Church of Korean Protestants in Xita, Shenyang.

rdf:langString Sacred Heart Cathedral of the Catholic Church in Shenyang, Liaoning.

rdf:langString Shisheng Temple of Chinese Buddhism in Shenyang, Liaoning.

rdf:langString Taulayitu-gegen Temple of Tibetan Buddhism on the boundary between Jilin and Inner Mongolia.

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rdf:langString Hengshan Temple.JPG

rdf:langString Sacred Heart Cathedral of Shenyang.jpg

rdf:langString Shisheng Temple 03 2015-09.JPG

rdf:langString Suifenhe .jpg

rdf:langString Xita Church, New.jpg

rdf:langString 吉林白城葛根庙5.jpg

rdf:langString 哈尔滨伯特利教堂 01.JPG

rdf:langString 哈尔滨伏尔加庄园中的圣•尼古拉大教堂.jpg

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rdf:langString Chinese religion , or not religious people

rdf:langString The predominant religions in Northeast China (including the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, historically also known as Manchuria) are Chinese folk religions led by local shamans. Taoism and Chinese Buddhism were never well established in this region of recent Han Chinese settlement (Han people began to be a large part of the population only by the Qing dynasty). For this reason the region has been a hotbed for folk religious and Confucian churches, which provide a structure, clergy, scriptures and ritual to the local communities. The Way of the Return to the One, the Universal Church of the Way and its Virtue (Shanrendao), and more recently the Falun Gong, have been the most successful sects in Manchuria, claiming millions of followers. Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditionally transmitted by the region's Mongol minorities, have made inroads also among Han Chinese. The period of the Japanese occupation (1931) and the establishment of an independent Manchukuo (1932–1945), saw the development of Japanese scholarship on the local religion, and later the establishment of Shinto shrines and sects. The native Manchu population, today mostly assimilated to the Han Chinese, practices Han religions but has also maintained pure Manchu shamanism. The local Chinese folk religion has developed many patterns inherited from Manchu and Tungus shamanism, making it different from central and southern folk religion. According to surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009, 7.73% of the population believes and is involved in cults of ancestors, while 2.15% of the population identifies as Christian. The reports didn't give figures for other types of religion; 90.12% of the population may be either irreligious or involved in worship of nature deities, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, folk religious sects, and small minorities of Muslims. The Mongol minority mostly practices Mongolian folk religion and Tibetan-originated schools of Buddhism, while the Korean minority is mostly affiliated to Korean shamanism and Christianity.