However, in the process that Buddhism spread from India to China and became familiarized to the common people, it had assimilated the Han race's folk religion for memorial services for ancestors which originated from Taoism and Confucianism, and at last Buddhist priests became to manage funeral rites as well.
しかし、インドから中国へと伝播し民衆へと教化が行われるうちに、漢民族の道教や儒教に由来する先祖供養の民間信仰と習合し、仏教は葬送儀礼をも司るようになった。