Based on the author’s fieldwork the article gives an overview over the main features of Chinese and Korean Buddhism in Brazil. While Chinese groups can be divided in ethnic temples administered by local initiatives, and "globalized" institutions that run missionary strategies in order to establish Buddhism in the overall Brazilian society, the number of Korean temples is considerably restricted due to the compensating role of Christian Churches that served Korean immigrants at the time of their arrival. For heuristic reasons the second part of the article confronts the characteristics both of Chinese and Korean Buddhism with the situation of Japanese Buddhism, the third line of East Asian Buddhism in Brazil.