Why did Nestorianism fail?

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>tfw no movie or mini series about Rabban Bar Sauma and his student Rabban Markos's travels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabban_Bar_Sauma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahballaha_III

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>tfw no movie about the two Nestorian monks who smuggled silkworm eggs into the Byzantine Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into_the_Byzantine_Empire

muslim conquest and chinese bureaucracy pushing for a sinocentric philosophy/religion

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>>2718164
>chinese bureaucracy pushing for a sinocentric philosophy/religion
In China, Nestorianism declined because the Mongols made it unpopular among the Chinese folk.

Seeing some of your barbarian conquerors having the (some Christian Turkic groups for instance) have the same religion as you do makes it unpalatable after a while.

It being non-Chinese had nothing to do with it considering that when Nestorianism was dying in China, Catholicism gained a foothold under the Ming,

>>2718220
mongols were in general extremely liberal with practice of religions, and chinese are used to having multiple religious customs in their everyday life. I don't think they had any particular reason to be against nestorianism. Catholycism gained a foothold because priests were acting as ambassadors, but it didn't find any support among the populace until she society of sky.

>>2718170
Wait, I thought Byzantines and Nestorians hated each other?

>>2718168
The rabbanites were already doing this trek centuries before. But yeah, whichever would make an extremely /comfy/ movie.

However I dunno if Hollywood is ready yet for an ancient Indiana Jew ebin action film trilogy.

>>2718170
But in the end it didn't even matter