WI:A sustained effort was made to preach Buddhism in the Roman Empire?

1/2) You're ignoring that Buddhism did not go from Nepal to China...

3) I didn't dispute that, but there's also an ocean route. And the eastern part of the Roman Empire isn't just a boat ride away.

4/5 I think the bigger factors are probably social and easily impacted by which civilizations rise in between. ;)
 
1/2) You're ignoring that Buddhism did not go from Nepal to China...

3) I didn't dispute that, but there's also an ocean route. And the eastern part of the Roman Empire isn't just a boat ride away.

4/5 I think the bigger factors are probably social and easily impacted by which civilizations rise in between. ;)
1) Really?

2) True. The same can be said for the Han dynasty.

3) Buddhism arrived in China under the Han. For Budhism to be accepted openly in the Roman Empire as a whole, it'll need to go through the Emperor. That's in Roman Italy in the Western Mediterranean. I don't even know why we're arguing about this. China was a lot closer to the source.

4) But you do acknowedge that the distance would be a factor working against it, right?
 
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1) Really?

Yes, really. It wasn't too far off, however. One of the earliest and most influential Buddhist missionaries to the Han Chinese was a man from the city-state of Qiuci, located in what it now the city of Kuqa in Aksu Prefecture of southern Xinjiang, on the outskirts of the Taklamakan Desert. This man was named Kumarajiva (鸠摩罗什). He was born to a local Tocharian noblewoman and a Kashmiri father, who crossed the Pamir mountains to get there.

So, Buddhism came to inner China across mountains by way of Kashmir.
 
Yes, really. It wasn't too far off, however. One of the earliest and most influential Buddhist missionaries to the Han Chinese was a man from the city-state of Qiuci, located in what it now the city of Kuqa in Aksu Prefecture of southern Xinjiang, on the outskirts of the Taklamakan Desert. This man was named Kumarajiva (鸠摩罗什). He was born to a local Tocharian noblewoman and a Kashmiri father, who crossed the Pamir mountains to get there.

So, Buddhism came to inner China across mountains by way of Kashmir.
What I meat was that Buddhism began in Nepal. Christianity began in the Levant. Did it go directly from there to Rome? No. There were intermediaries, but when you get down for it Christianity began in the Levant like Buddhism began in modern Nepal.
 
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