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For syncretism.The position of Buddhism in Nepal and Japan compared 'Hkritiers de la logique grecque et du monothkisme j u g nous appliquons d'instinct aux croyances religieuses le principe de contradiction; dieux et dkvots se classent it nos yeux en groupes fermks, exclusifs jusqu 2 Pantagonisme.Des statisticiens, skrieux a en mourir de rire, calculent le total des Bouddhistes, des Confuciens, des Shintoistes.Un Hindou, un Chinois, un Japonais n'arriveraient pas a les comprendre' Sylvain Lkvi, Le Nepal, I, 173.3 Stewart (1991: 7).This distinction is an external analytical one; no doubt the protagonists in the early Pagan-Christian encounter had diverse, and more complex, assessments of the relationship.
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