The Encyclopedia of Religion notes that “key Buddhist texts were given fresh interpretation; apologetic literature, new poems, and new laws and regulations were promulgated that modified and, indeed, transformed aspects of the Buddhist message so that it could graft onto, and in some ways revitalize, dimensions of the indigenous folk religions and of the Confucianism and Taoism of that land.”
IThe Encyclopedia of Religion ithi “iindinyana eziphambili zobuBhuda zacaciswa ngokutsha; kwabhengezwa uncwadi lokubuthethelela, imibongo emitsha, nemithetho emitsha eyathi yazihlaziya yaza, eneneni, yaziguqula iinkalo zesigidimi sobuBhuda ukuze bube yinxalenye, yaye ngezinye iindlela bomeleze, iinkalo ezithile zeenkonzo zabantu bomthonyama nezobuConfucius nobuTao zelo lizwe.”jw2019 jw2019