Question

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 in a net. (-5[1])A practitioner of this country’s “pure land” sect (10[3]-5[1])formed (10[1])the White Lotus Society. A disciple from this country severed his own left arm for his master 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]0[1])

ANSWER: China [or Zhōngguó; accept People’s Republic of China or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó] (Fǎzàng wrote the Rafter Dialogue.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sky LiToronto AToronto Disband the Club 2k2440-5
Parth JagtapToronto BMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii76-5
Yihong ChenToronto Chestnut Rice and KamehamehaCarleton A8410
Mattias EhatammWaterloo AspidistraOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom8410
Mattias EhatammWaterloo AspidistraOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom8410
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AWaterloo Cloze84-5
Nick EdwardsMcGill AWaterloo Basic8510
Yusuf BaigMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiToronto B12910
Raymond ChenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Toronto A1290
Xavier SpanoWaterloo ClozeToronto Metropolitan A12910

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