Buddhism was the fittest and became the predominant religion.

This, again, is Mr. Latham's profound and interesting view of Buddhism: "Buddhism is one thing.

Buddhism is the prevailing faith of the masses, Confucianism of the upper classes.

Buddhism from the first was a proselytising religion; it at one time overran the whole of India, and though it is now in small favour there, it is, in such form as it has assumed, often a highly beggarly one, understood to be the religion of 340 millions of the human race.

"Whether this constitute Buddhism is another question.

BUDDHISM, the religion of Buddha, a religion which, eschewing all speculation about God and the universe, set itself solely to the work of salvation, the end of which was the merging of the individual in the unity of being, and the "way" to which was the mortification of all private passion and desire which mortification, when finished, was the Buddhist Nirvâna.

Thus Buddhism became a sort of official religion.

As a religion Buddhism is an absurdity; in fact, it is no religion at all, only a system of moral philosophy.