Groups the spreadevent entries documenting Buddhism's spread from its origin on the Ganges plain of northern India along trade and pilgrimage routes into Central Asia, then into China, Korea and Japan, and separately south and east into Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, carried by missionaries, traveling monks and royal patronage. Belongs here: any event marking Buddhism's geographic or institutional expansion into a new region or court. Does not belong here: doctrinal council and schism events with no geographic-spread component; the spread events of any other tradition.
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Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophy based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a śramaṇa and religious teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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