How Buddhism started in India and spread to China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyXEfgYUYfw Buddhism was originated in the 6th century BCE in what's today known as Nepal and India. It was brought to China by Buddhist monks from India and central Asia during the later period of the Han dynasty in the 2nd century CE through the silk roads. It wasn't until a few centuries later that Buddhism became assimilated into Chinese culture. One of the key forces of Buddhism’s success was actually Taoism, an original social practice of ancient China. Early Buddhist monks borrowed ideas from Taoist via the Chinese language to help the Chinese understand Buddhist concepts, which at that time was very new and strange to Chinese people. Both Buddhism and Taoist benefited from this exchange. Taoist expanded their ideas about the cosmos and ways to structure their monastic…