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  2. Silk Road transmission of Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism entered [12] China via the Silk Road. Buddhist monks travelled with merchant caravans on the Silk Road to preach their new religion. The lucrative Chinese silk trade along this trade route began during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE), with voyages by people like Zhang Qian establishing ties between China and the west.

  3. Silk Road - Wikipedia

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    The Silk Road [a] was a network of Asian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. [1] Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds.

  4. Manichaeism - Wikipedia

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    There was a serious attempt made to introduce the religion to the Tibetans as the text Criteria of the Authentic Scriptures (a text attributed to the Tibetan Emperor Trisong Detsen) makes a great effort to attack Manichaeism by stating that Mani was a heretic who engaged in religious syncretism into a deviating and inauthentic form.

  5. Gandharan Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Due to Gandhāra's position on the Silk Road, Gandhāran Buddhism has a strong influence on the Buddhism of Central Asia and East Asia. During the Greek and Kushan eras, the Khyber Pass was an important trade route and a key highway connected Peshawar with Bactria (and the city of Balkh, or Bactra) through the pass. [50]

  6. Religion and human migration - Wikipedia

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    Religious beliefs and practices have served as significant motivations for migration, with people seeking religious freedom or fleeing religious persecution. [2] This interaction of religion and migration has led to the spread and diversity of religions around the world, as well as the emergence of new religious practices and beliefs as people ...

  7. History of Indian influence on Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Notably, established Buddhist monasteries along the Silk Road offered a haven, as well as a new religion for foreigners. [47] The spread of religions and cultural traditions along the Silk Roads, according to Jerry H. Bentley, also led to syncretism. One example was the encounter with the Chinese and Xiongnu nomads. These unlikely events of ...

  8. Dunhuang manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. The Dunhuang manuscripts are a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Paul Pelliot and Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.

  9. Xinru Liu - Wikipedia

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    Silk and Religion—An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People in A.D. 600-1200 (1996) [6] The Silk Road, in the series of Essays on Global and Comparative History (1998) Connections Across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads (2007) The Silk Road in World History (2010)