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P.1038 - §1 Buddhism, later on,
was much affected by Taoism in China, Shinto in Japan, and Christianity
in Tibet. After a thousand years, in India Buddhism simply withered and
expired. It became Brahmanized and later abjectly surrendered to Islam,
while throughout much of the rest of the Orient it degenerated into a ritual
which Gautama Siddhartha would never have recognized. |