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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 (-5[1])originated an argument that emptiness, provisional positing, and the center formed the three truths. Traditions from this (-5[1])country first developed the “perfect interfusion” doctrine to explain interpenetration of all universal phenomena through a metaphor of infinite reflections on (*) jewels in a net. (10[1])A practitioner of this country’s (10[1])“pure land” sect formed the White (-5[1])Lotus Society. A disciple from this country severed his own left arm for his master (10[1])Bodhidharma, who founded a mountain temple noted for its martial arts. For 10 points, name this modern-day country where the Huáyán and Tiantai Schools were founded. ■END■ (10[2])

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