Buddhism as Iranian heresy?

[Richard Salomon]

Yes, there is no reasonable doubt about this. It is also confirmed by recent
manuscript and epigraphical discoveries. Please see, for example, my
"Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara" (Seattle/London 1999), esp. chapter
8 .

Richard Salomon

>  Just to confirm what he says: is it generally accepted that
> Buddhism left India via the NW and entered Central Asia and from there to
> the Tarim basin and that the Chinese got it from that direction?
>
> Dean Anderson
>