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94:9.3 [[Buddhism]], later on, was much affected by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism] in China, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto Shinto] in Japan, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiainity Christianity] in Tibet. After a thousand years, in India Buddhism simply withered and expired. It became [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahmanized] and later abjectly [[surrendered]] to [[Islam]], while throughout much of the rest of the [[Orient]] it [[degenerated]] into a [[ritual]] which [[Gautama Siddhartha]] would never have recognized.
 
94:9.3 [[Buddhism]], later on, was much affected by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Taoism] in China, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto Shinto] in Japan, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiainity Christianity] in Tibet. After a thousand years, in India Buddhism simply withered and expired. It became [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman Brahmanized] and later abjectly [[surrendered]] to [[Islam]], while throughout much of the rest of the [[Orient]] it [[degenerated]] into a [[ritual]] which [[Gautama Siddhartha]] would never have recognized.
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94:9.4 In the south the [[fundamentalist]] [[stereotype]] of the teachings of [[Siddhartha]] persisted in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon],  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma Burma], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam Indo-China peninsula]. This is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayana Hinayana] division of Buddhism which clings to the early or asocial [[doctrine]].
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94:9.4 In the south the [[fundamentalist]] [[stereotype]] of the teachings of [[Siddhartha]] persisted in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon],  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma Burma], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam Indo-China peninsula]. This is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayana Hinayana] division of Buddhism which clings to the early or asocial [[doctrine]].
    
94:9.5 But even before the collapse in India, the Chinese and north Indian groups of [[Gautama]]'s followers had begun the [[development]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana Mahayana] teaching of the "Great Road" to [[salvation]] in contrast with the purists of the south who held to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayna Hinayana], or "Lesser Road." And these Mahayanists cast loose from the [[social]] [[limitations]] [[inherent]] in the [[Buddhist]] [[doctrine]], and ever since has this northern division of Buddhism continued to evolve in China and Japan.
 
94:9.5 But even before the collapse in India, the Chinese and north Indian groups of [[Gautama]]'s followers had begun the [[development]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana Mahayana] teaching of the "Great Road" to [[salvation]] in contrast with the purists of the south who held to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayna Hinayana], or "Lesser Road." And these Mahayanists cast loose from the [[social]] [[limitations]] [[inherent]] in the [[Buddhist]] [[doctrine]], and ever since has this northern division of Buddhism continued to evolve in China and Japan.

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