Buddhism in the Silk Road:History, Archaeological evidences and Development of Human Civilization
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This research aims were to study the history of Buddhism, archaeological evidences of Buddhism and human civilization along the silk road. It was a qualitative research focus on the study of evidences and archaeological, historical documents. It was also field trip to civilization areas in Xinjiang province of China and Bihar state of India. The data analyzed by using descriptive method.
The results of study were found that:
1. The silk road was an ancient trade route in the continent of Asia connecting West and East. Buddhism began to propagate after the third Buddhism council. It has been widely respected until the 1700’s B.E.
2. Archaeological evidences of Buddhist along the silk road were Buddha Images, Pagoda, cave piercing, architecture scripture collection which appeared in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and China.
3. Human civilizations along the silk road were exchange money, religion, politics, government, culture, customs including human innovation, such as, recording, cave drilling, architecture and mummification.
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