SwatCat
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I said, that is what minorities see in India. China was unified in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. There was one script during that time, The Zhou split up during the warring states when the feudal lords declared themselves kings, and the one zhou script diverged into many. Then Qin reunited the Zhou states and restandarized the script and eliminated the other scripts.
And are you telling me An Shigao is fake? He was an Iranic Parthian Prince and he brought Buddhism to China, not Indians.
Tell me one thing if china has that much influence of its culture why the Confucius institutes which are promoted by China failed miserably recently, where as the concepts of Dharma originated in India spread throughout world.
India is the epi centre of Dharma and Dharmic concepts that spread through out the world.
Regarding Persian language, this language was confined only to kings courts, muslims even the turkic rulers used Urdu which originated from Hindi as a medium of communication.
You saying some persian brought buddhism to china is like saying we got Islam from Xinjiang people so there is no significance for Saudi. Tibet is a major place where Buddhism flourished and took route and it was mainly by the monks who crossed the mountains. Similarly the persian monk whom you are talking about is also a guy who was influenced by India dharmic principles.
The Silk route also aided for the spread of buddhism.
These are the quotes about India please go through them
Will Durant, American historian: "India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all".
These are the words of Chinese ambassador:
Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA: "India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."