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AN interesting chapter in the history of religions might be written comparing the methods of the great proselytising faiths and the measure of their tolerance towards other forms of belief with which they have come into contact. In such a comparison Buddhism would rank high; but as the price of its tolerance in the countries of its adoption, it has had to pay in the form of many a strange mutation. In China where there is a tradition, though it has been challenged, that Buddhism was introduced in the first century A.D., the faith had become obscured to such a degree that the pious pilgrims who, in the sixth and seventh centuries, made the arduous journey from China to India were animated not merely by their desire to visit the holy places associated with the founder, but also by their zeal to restore the true doctrine to the followers of Buddha in China.
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F., E. Art and Mythology in Asia. Nature 132, 194–196 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132194a0
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