Blog:Buddhism and Empire

On Omentis there are four major impacts and the planet during its history. One is the Mrāŋ an the spread of Mrāŋ Buddhism, the other is the lack of adoption of it by the northern people of Chika, really only a minor impact relatively, the pseudo-imperialism of Southerm Randis and the advancement of the people of Siilo.

=Chika=

The Mrāŋ
Buddhism originally came from a group of people who called their language 'alăi and called themselves "mrāŋ". The Mrāŋ are a group of people who came together in the East Asian areas of Earth to create a form of Buddhism they believed fulfilled their anti-hierarchical ideas as well as fit in with real-life, interactual situations as well as allowing for the achievement of enlightenment while at the same time creating a unified Buddhism language in which all texts could be translated and read. They used Sanskrit and Tibetan, along with elements from a further researched Proto-Sino-Tibetan as the basis for the language. Words for people, language, unity and so on, things that linked people with each other in real-life were taken from Proto-Sino-Tibetan while metaphysical words were taken from Sanskrit fit into a Tibetan phonology while the rest of the vocabulary was overridingly Tibetan.

Mrāŋ Buddhism
Through the clan-phraty system combined with the general nature and cultural beliefs of the vast majority of the planet's people, the vast majority of people were interconnected. Due to this interconnectedness it was easy for metaphysical ideas to spread around and, as they very rarely affected the other real-world ideas held by the people, thy wer easily accepted by a clan over a period of time.

Over time and through marriage, their way of life spread through the clan-phratry system over most of Chika and Laana and eventually over the oceans to the other continents who had long distance trade links with Laana and Chika, mostly by means of small islands which traded between themselves with the outlying islands trading with the continents.

Northern Chika
The Mrāŋ form of Buddhism seemed perfectly sutied for the majority of the planet, minus Siilo and a few enclaves of people in the northern areas of the planet who sought to come to the planet to preserve a way of life, not to adopt a new one, the reason why it never spread to Randis and the northern peoples of Chika.

=Randis=

They were very rarely in contact with anyone and the southern people of Randis showed from early on, no desire to stop agricultural expansion at the point the Sangi people had done and instead eventually created a pseudo-empire, more along the lines of a more unified people without a clan-phratry system.

Pseudo-Imperialism
=Siilo=