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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Burma was inhabited by migration of Mongol people from China thousands of years ago as part of a migration that also settled Mongol people in Assam, the hills and valleys of Northeast India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, and Tibet. Another wave migrated and populated South East Asia-Malaya, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. In Burma, a majority settled in the Central plains, while others 'settled on the hill ranges that extended north-south on either side of the Central plains. All these different groups had evolved animist religions. In India to the West, two major religions evolved, besides numerous animist religions too. The two major religions were Hinduism and Buddhism. It was the Buddhist king Ashoka who propagated Buddhism to several countries to the West and East of his country. To the East, the emissaries of Ashoka carried Buddhism to Burma and several South East Asian countries, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Tibet, China and Japan.
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