Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the Mahayaha practice when the expansion of Buddhism crossed the Silk Road.

Buddhism Along The Silk Route. By PHUNTSOG DOLMA. After the Mahaparinirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha, his profound non-sectarian, universal teachings were not confined to the borders of India but ...

On The Buddhist Road. Published Nov 17, 2007 at 9:08 AM EST Updated Mar 13, ... During the fifth century A.D., caravans traveling along the southern Silk Road from China to India transported silk, ...

Buddhism was the first of the great missionary faiths to take advantage of the mobility provided by the Silk Road to extend its reach far beyond its native ground as Buddhist monks, along with ...

The preamble to the exhibition “Atlas of Maritime Buddhism” emphasises the division of the ancient Silk Road into land and sea routes. The exhibition at City University of Hong Kong is ...

In the Silk Road context, a good example of this process are the Sufis, devotees committed to spiritual life and unity among traditions, whose teachings of Islam exist in all the vernaculars and ...

Known as the transmitter of Chan, or Zen Buddhism, the Chinese monk, Bodhidharma, was said to have a volatile temperament. Portrait of Bodhidharma. Fourteenth century, ink on silk. Courtesy the ...