But at the same time as Daoism was becoming organized in the Eastern Han dynasty, Buddhism was already spreading East into China, so it is widely held that such Daoist notions of heaven and hell already incorporated Buddhist ideas.
但在東漢道教組織化的同時，佛教已經東傳，因此一般以為道教天堂、地獄的說法已融合佛教精神。