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The participants of the debate were all prominent Buddhists and scholars, but they often confused these aspects. Despite the fact that they had formulated various conclusions concerning the authenticity of the Awakening of Faith, nearly all of them defended the book's legitimacy. Even for those who maintained that the book was not authentic, few chose to denounce it. The separation of academic findings and sectarian positions reveals the inherent and unsolved tension, in Chinese Buddhism, between Indian origination and Chinese localization, as well as that between authenticity and applicability.","abstract_html":"The debate on the authenticity of the Awakening of Faith in early-twentieth-century China was significant in its impact on the modernization of Chinese Buddhism. It reveals the complex relation between Yogācāra and the Chinese Buddhist schools that are built on tathāgatagarbha thought. 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