Oh, Interesting. When the Buddhists arrived in 2nd Century Viet Nam so did their Indonesian and Malaysian shipping networks to India.
@jaspergregory There’s an interesting analogy with the spread of Islam in Africa; also mainly by traders there, >
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@jaspergregory > and it was highly explicit that the function of Islam was to make contract law function across ethnicity boundaries. -
@jaspergregory Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam might be the only religions with a universalist ethics? - 1 more reply
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@Meaningness Sounds tautological : ideas spread via communication channels@jaspergregory -
@jmorika@jaspergregory Spread by traders in goods, not missionaries. - 2 more replies
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