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The Silk Road was a primary route for spreading Buddhism because sustained cultural contacts along trade networks transmitted religious ideas to new regions, where local interactions and reinterpretations helped produce Mahayana Buddhism with a more divine Buddha and altered notions of Nirvana.
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