Of the most influential people in early Buddhism the ubasoku were the main driving forces in the integration of rural Japan. These traditional shamanistic, Buddhists had come over from China and Korea. In their own country states they had supported the wrong group of politicians or they were just run out of their homelands for other various reasons. They had brought over the ways of Buddhism and superiour technology to help the native Japanese. The ubasoku were exiles, but with their superior technology they had no problem gaining acceptance in the upper class of Japanese society.

The ubasoku had many unusual magical powers that intrigued both the upper and rural classes. Many of the ubasoku dwelled in the mountains and relied on the mountins to provide them with shelter and hard to come by

In conclusion the ubasoku who had brought irrigation, bridge building, wheelbarrows, architecture and various new ways to produce food such as the three field system, and as a by product of that technology many people in Japan had to observe demonstrations of Buddhism. Many of the people that bought into the ideas of Buddhism did so out of the need to be more like the superior Koreans and Chinese. Still others decided to accept the ideas due to the fact that Shinto was the perfect religion to absorb the ideals of another religion. This worked out rather nicely due to the fact that the ubasoku were rather intelligent people, who were able to convince the simpler rural peoples of Japan. The ubasoku had to be smart enough to escape imminent death in their homeland and to navigate the difficult waters between Korea and Japan. The advances that they possessed did not hurt them either. Many of the ubasoku were intelligent enough to ma

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