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.

Inida's famous monk also came to central China's Henan through Pakistan and Afghanistan, Silk Road in 147 AD and 401 AD respectively, to translate Buddhist books and enroll thousands of disciples.

And of course God: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam each coursed along the Silk Road. So did revolutionary innovations such as algebra. So did the bubonic plague. (Scholars think the Black Death ...

Kumarajiva hailed from the Kucha kingdom, an ancient Buddhism kingdom that was located along the northern part of the Silk Road, in what is now modern-day Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang. This kingdom ...

William Dalrymple highlights India's historical economic dominance, Buddhist influence on China, and the spread of Indian languages and scripts across Asia ...

From there, the technique was brought into China, Japan, and South East Asia together with Buddhism via the networks of commercial routes that came to be known of the Silk Road. When Silk Road ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...

Whether it's Buddhism north from India and eastward into China, or the advance of Islam deep into Asia, all this is a Silk Road phenomenon. "The term 'Silk Road' was coined by a German geographer ...

Write an overview of those interactions and their greater significance throughout Indian history, referencing the Silk Road, Buddhism, Gupta Empire, Cholan Empire, astronomy, mathematics ...

Whether it's Buddhism north from India and eastward into China, or the advance of Islam deep into Asia, all this is a Silk Road phenomenon. "The term 'Silk Road' was coined by a German geographer ...