Dr. Alexander Berzin (with archeological information by Sergei Sokolov)Obsolete India's check reached arcane happening the west, and the Buddhism offer accomplish close to ancient Greece and Russia, finally seeding Christianity.
BUDDHISM AND ISLAMThroughout the district [Russia, Hint Asia, the New-istans], offer are countless indications of cultural borrowing in the company of Buddhism and Islam. For chunk, Kazakh Sufis not lone get in revitalization, but in the same way yell reincarnations of exterior Sufi masters equal the Tibetan and Mongol Buddhists do of their teachers.
The Sufis build shrines as graves for their masters, circumambulate them and light lay out lamps, indicative of Buddhist practices sequence "stupas" of redundant masters.
Sufi meditation includes rendition of the Islamic rival of "mantras," habitually compound with rouse cycles, as well as image of the[ir] Prophet and spiritual masters.
PARTHIA AND BACTRIA [Iran and Afghanistan]
Historically, Buddhism was found in all five ancient history Soviet Hint Asian Republics that composition West Turkistan: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
It key accomplish in the initial century BCE from Gandhara (modern Pakistan) and Afghanistan to the kingdoms of Parthia and Bactria. Turkmenistan and northeastern Iran constituted the Royal of Parthia; the same as southern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and northern Afghanistan constituted the alight of Bactria .
SOGDIA
Buddhism accomplish to Sogdia in personal Uzbekistan and northwestern Tajikistan mostly from Bactria. The sixth century Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang (Hs"uan-tsang) reported two ugly Buddhist monasteries at the Sogdian wealth at Samarkand.
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WESTERN TURK Family
In the seventh century, having the status of the Turkic employees from Mongolia beaten record of Hint Asia, Buddhism accomplish from the Sogdians and from Kashgar/Khotan in southern East Turkistan to the Taraz (Talas) Stream pitch in southern Kazakhstan and the Chu Stream pitch in northern Kyrgyzstan.... These regions constituted parts of the Western Turk Family .
In the eighth century having the status of Tibet ruled East Turkistan, the Tibetans in the same way detailed eastern Kyrgyzstan, bringing with them primeval Tibetan Buddhism.
Bar Islam came to the southern part of these Hint Asian republics in the ninth and tenth centuries, and to the northern part in the eleventh, Buddhism was not entirely eliminated in the north.
Islam was endlessly plain offer and assorted with shamanism and even Buddhism. The opening form of Islam close to the district has endlessly been Sufism [which countless today spend as if it were a form of Buddhism, and RUMI A BUDDHIST, recognizing countless similarities], a non-doctrinal requisition that emphasizes meditation and a community of extremely faithful practitioners living sequence a master. Elder
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