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Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead...

The history of Buddhist expansion is paralleled by the history of Buddhist dogma. Buddhist history may be conveniently divided into periods of five hundred years. This division is actually the one preferred by Buddhist scholars since at least the first century AD. Essential to this way of thinking is the view that the world, indeed the entire universe, is in decline. Consequently, the beginning of the Buddhist era marked a relative
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