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A thinker from this modern-day country showed how the universe, like a house, is both identical to and distinct from its parts in a metaphor about a rafter. A religious school in this modern-day country originated an argument that emptiness, provisional (-5[1])positing, and the center formed the three truths. Traditions from this country first developed the “perfect interfusion” doctrine to explain interpenetration of all universal phenomena through a metaphor of infinite reflections on (*) jewels (-5[1])in a net. A practitioner of this country’s “pure land” sect (-5[1])formed the White Lotus Society. A disciple from this country severed his own left arm (10[1])for his master Bodhidharma, who founded a mountain temple noted for its martial arts. For 10 points, (10[1])name this modern-day country where the Huáyán and Tiantai Schools were founded. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: China [or Zhōngguó; accept People’s Republic of China or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó] (Fǎzàng wrote the Rafter Dialogue.)
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