I didn't say it came from India, I was referring to the empires of the subcontinent (Indus valley etc.) which includes modern day Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nepal. So the credit for the cultural transfer of Buddhism/Shaolin/etc. goes to ALL these nations in the subcontinent.
Chinese don't call our country "China" actually. That is derived from the Sanskrit world Cina which was derived from the name of the Chinese Emperor Qin.
We call our country Zhōngguó (中国
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... which means "Middle Kingdom" or "Central Empire". Only non-Chinese refer to us as "China".
As to Buddhism, it has had a central influence on Chinese culture for thousands of years. Many Chinese people practice a form of Buddhism mixed with Daoism mixed with Confucianism. Veneration of ancestors is also a central idea, however you can also say that Chinese are "non-Religious" because all these can be classified as philosophies rather than religions.