Much like Buddhism and there belief of universalism, the doctrines of Daoism held a similar context – The religion offered believers the chance of spiritual immortality in the form of reincarnation in a celestial pantheon. As Daoism spread westward into Central Asia along the travel route, the religious facilities started traveling along with the believers, which was an important part of the spread as it brought about more complex temple developments within the Buddhist temple. It can be seen in this duel religious communication that the duel-belief became great deal as the Chinese Chan tradition of Buddhism owed a good deal of Buddhist-Daoist Syncretism. There were important changes taking place along the Silk Roads as the Western civilisations started reaching the trading …show more content…
It was a religion that thrived at the expense of classical paganism – In the Christian homeland, Judaism remained a dominant religion that was a non-proselytising religion that even though it did not spread much, it learnt to evolve and incorporate new traditions of study and practice. As the religion expanded eastward as well as westward, the process of evolution and change occurred and as a result there were numerous differences from place to place in the original doctrine and the form of worship. The spread along the Silk Road was more so in the form of Nestorianism, which followed the teachings of Nestorius, who was a fifth century patriarch of Constantinople who outraged the Roman and Byzantine Empires with his unorthodox doctrines, such as the one that gave the Virgin the titles of the “Mother of God”. The Nestorian format for Christian belief spread to Persia, India, and China, which was brought across in the format of the Syriac language. Undoubtedly, there were far less Christians than there were Buddhists in Central Asia, but there had been an almost equal amount of churches in the