WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Buddhism swept India in a grand and peaceful conversion, as saffron-robed Buddhist monks by the thousands preached the Buddha’s thought. Across the sea the teachings reached Sri Lanka and, across the Bay of Bengal, what are now Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Buddhism entered Han China via the Silk Road, beginning in the 1st or 2nd century CE. The first documented translation efforts by Buddhist monks in China were in the 2nd century CE via the Kushan Empire into the Chinese territory bordering the Tarim Basin under Kanishka.

Detailed explanation-3: -Buddhism is thought to have entered Southeast Asia from trade with India, China and Sri Lanka during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd centuries. One of the earliest accounts of Buddhism in Southeast Asia was of a Theravada Buddhist mission sent by the Indian emperor Ashoka to modern-day Burma in 250 BCE.

Detailed explanation-4: -Other accounts indicate that the Indo-Scythian king Kaniska of the Kushan (Kusana) dynasty, which ruled in northern India, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia in the 1st to 2nd century ce, encouraged the spread of Buddhism into Central Asia.