SILK ROAD RELIGION

BUDDHISM

• Spread quickly through western regions
• Started in china, spread by monks
• On their travels to study sutras in India they spread Buddhism along the silk road

ZOROASTRIANISM

• Spread in western regions of china
• Moved eastward after the spread of the Arab empire
• Travelled to southern and northern dynasties
• Once the official religion of persia

MANICHEISM

• Mixture of zoroastrianism, judaism, christianity qnd ancient greek ideas
• Very common among common chinese people.

NESTORIANISM

• School of Syrian christianity
• Introduced to china by way of the silk roads
• Some emperors built temples to practice the religion
• Declined in the Tang dynsaty

ISLAM

• Came from the Arabs on the silk road and sea routes
• Guangdong province and quanzhou were the holders of most islam
• Big effect on chinese religous beliefs