Buddhism

the system of faith introduced or reformed by Buddha. In its origin Buddhism was a reaction against the caste pretensions of the Brahmins and other Aryan invaders of India, and was, therefore, eminently fitted to become, as it for a long time was, the religion of the Turanians. Buddhism was dominant in India for “about 1,000 years after its establishment by Asoka. Then, having become corrupt and its vitality having decayed, reviving Brahminism prevailed over it, and all but extinguished it on the Indian continent, though a modification of it, Jainism, still exists in Marwad and many other parts. It has all along held its own, however, in Ceylon. On losing Continental India, its mi ionaries transferred their efforts to China, which they converted, and which still remains Buddhist. The religion of Gautama _ flourishes also in Tibet, Burma and Japan, and is the great Turanian faith of the modern as of the ancient world.