WI:No Buddah

Indian Buddhist back then didn't have that restriciton to sail across the sea to be bothered with unlike the contemporary Indian Hindus.

See, this has always confused me- I'm not sure why there's this persistent idea that all Hindus had that taboo. I've only ever heard it as a North Indian and Bengali practice- the Hindus of South India were maritime people as with the Cholas and Cheras and their like.
 
See, this has always confused me- I'm not sure why there's this persistent idea that all Hindus had that taboo. I've only ever heard it as a North Indian and Bengali practice- the Hindus of South India were maritime people as with the Cholas and Cheras and their like.

That quite explains the southern influences in Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist culture. Thanks for the correction :)
 
Zoroastrianism and Hinduism are/were not particularly proselytistic and wouldn't spread further than the boundaries of the cultures that had created them. The peoples of Southeast, Central, and East Asia would keep their folk religions.
Zoroastrianism was a proselytizing religion until the advent of Islam in Persia!
 
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