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Detailed explanation-1: -Buddhism is a good example of religion cultural diffusion. It reached China, due to cultural diffusion as it was favoured by the merchants along the silk roads, and therefore, was able to extend into China. Buddhism would be met with its patrons, as well harsh critics.

Detailed explanation-2: -The transmission of Buddhism from India to China (and from there to Korea and Japan) is perhaps the most significant of the cultural exchanges that took place along the Silk Road. Brought from India by missionaries and merchants, Buddhism was established in the oases of Central Asia by the first century BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -Buddhism spread primarily through relocation diffusion by missionaries and was slow to diffuse outside the area of origin.