Talk:Buddhism in Central Asia

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The link provided for the number of Buddhists in Afghanistan does not state anything about the current Buddhist population of Afghanistan. Thus I am removing Afghanistan form the population list as due to personal study and experience I know for a fact that their are no native Afghan Buddhists whatsoever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.153.31.221 (talk) 22:19, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

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I am going to remove Balkh from one of the sections on "Persian Buddhism" because that area was not Persian speaking in the 1st century CE. The language spoken there at time was Bactrian, an Eastern Iranian language VERY different than Persian altogether. Bactrian was closer to Pashto. I will actually remove the whole section because its completely irrelevant and attracts nationalists. Akmal94 (talk) 07:17, 25 July 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akmal94 (talk • contribs)


 * Akmal94: The Persianzation of Balkh started after the Muslim conquests, that is true. However, don't go and remove loads of sourced information. Instead, change it to Persian->Iranian. EDIT: I've changed it, shouldn't be an issue now. --HistoryofIran (talk) 14:38, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Origin of Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma's Persian origins are disputed by scholars of Buddhism, and to the best of my knowledge most have concluded he was in fact Indian. At minimum, this article should address that dispute, which is covered fairly thoroughly in our Bodhidharma article. Laodah 04:12, 5 February 2022 (UTC)