Why didn't Buddhism spread West? Either during the Silk

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>>2899933
It did

>Who is Taisen Deshimaru
And literally every single mother and white trash whore has a buddha statue

>>2899933
It did. What is now Afghanistan and some Greeks in Hellenic Persia were Buddhists.

Sassanid State-Zoroastrianism and Islam put a stop to it.

It did, Buddhism got as far as Egypt.

Then Islam happened.

>>2899933
It did. It generally got pretty far up until Islam came and basically did what ISIS does today to Buddhist shit.

>>2899988
>>2899996
Did the Caliphs ban Buddhism or did people simply think they didn't need it anymore after they converted to Islam?

Since you can be Buddhist as well as another religion, I don't see why Islam put a hard stop to it.

>>2900056

Buddhism wasn't one of the protected religions, so practitioners were given the usual Islamic options of converting to Islam or death.

it did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY0Ib3aPG6Y

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>>2900066
>jizya tax

>>2901482
Jizya tax is only for the people of the book. Buddhists/Hindus/Jains aren't covered.

>>2901492
by "people of the book" you mean jews and Christians?
So all other religions were outlawed?

>>2901512
Jews/Christians.

Other religions were covered under the "convert or die" policy.

There was that one time a Buddha statue was found at Viking ruins in Sweden
>https://beachcombing.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/the-buddha-in-viking-sweden/

>>2901519
The author writes like an asshole

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>>2899933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism

"Numerous works of Greco-Buddhist art display the intermixing of Greek and Buddhist influences, around such creation centers as Gandhara. The subject matter of Gandharan art was definitely Buddhist, while most motifs were of Western Asiatic or Hellenistic origin."

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

"Will Durant, noting that the Emperor Ashoka sent missionaries, not only to elsewhere in India and to Sri Lanka, but to Syria, Egypt and Greece, speculated in the 1930s that they may have helped prepare the ground for Christian teaching.[6]"

You should read these two Articles OP

>>2899951
Holy fuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark it all makes sense now

>>2901519
>here I have some furs/amber/iron/slaves for you mister muslim man
>okay mister norse man, I pay you with gold and silver and this nice trinket from the east


And that's that