Oh, Interesting. When the Buddhists arrived in 2nd Century Viet Nam so did their Indonesian and Malaysian shipping networks to India.
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@jaspergregory Schoppen makes a good case that Buddhism was an international finance, manufacturing, and trade cult.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@jaspergregory Buddhism’s universalist ethics was critical in creating a web of trust with unrelated people along international trade routes1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@jaspergregory There’s an interesting analogy with the spread of Islam in Africa; also mainly by traders there, >2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jaspergregory > and it was highly explicit that the function of Islam was to make contract law function across ethnicity boundaries.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@jaspergregory Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam might be the only religions with a universalist ethics?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@jaspergregory They are the only genuinely world religions, and maybe this explains why.
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