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WIDE DIFFUSION OF BUDDHISM.
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to cross the Himmalaya in great numbers, spread over Thibet, Bucharia, Mongolia and China, the Birman Empire and Japan, and also over the island of Ceylon. So actively, indeed, has propagandism been carried on in those countries, that Buddhism at present boasts a greater number of disciples than any other form of religious faith.