Outline history of buddhism in Central Asia

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Abu'l-Rayhan Muhammad al-BTrunl was the first to trace the history of Buddhism in Central Asia and the Near East. Approximately a thousand years ago, he said: "In former times Khorasan, Persia, Iraq, Mosul, the country up to the frontier of Syria, was Buddhistic, hut then Zarathustra went forth from Adharbayjan and preached Magism in Balkh (Baktra)...