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Jiang links Buddhism's rise to ruler conflict with Brahmin power, noting that the first Buddha was a prince and that a king/emperor institutionalized Buddhism and sponsored missions abroad.
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Jiang links Buddhism's rise to ruler conflict with Brahmin power, noting that the first Buddha was a prince and that a king/emperor institutionalized Buddhism and sponsored missions abroad.
"...was the one who institutionalized Buddhism as state religion who sponsored missionary projects to China to Greece to Egypt. Okay? So these rulers don't..."
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.
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