How did Buddhism survive as a religion?

Buddha's teachings were essentially about karma and maya (world being an illusion), dealt within the scope of a non dualistic perspective. read more

As, the atheistic stance of Buddhism was widely propagated, the religion faced another peculiar problem. It is usually 1 among a bunch of 1000 people who would really be interested in the non dualistic perspective of a religion. read more

One answer i got from my grandmother was that Jains considered it a taboo to travel by water since it harmed organisms more compared to barefoot land travel.As Buddhists did not hold such a view and so were able to spread the religion to Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, China etc. read more

(One of the major figures in the critical religion movement, which argues that 'religion' is an discourse of an abstract concept that has been inappropriately reified, focuses on Buddhism in Japan before becoming involved in the critical religion movement. read more