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I. INDIA BEFORE BUDDHISM 1. Caucasian Migration into India In prehistoric times when great migrations were taking place over the face of the earth, successive waves of Caucasian nomads migrated into several areas of the world: Indo-Iranian and Eastern Europe. Those that pushed into the continent of India subdued the native race which had attained a high level of civilization as early as 3000 B.C. Blessed by the rich and fertile river valleys of the Punjab, …

…Land, Dharma, and so forth, there arose schools or sects of Buddhism in China and Japan. The principal schools in Japan total 13, with many subdivisions. The most famous are the philosophical Kegon and Tendai schools, the esoteric Shingon school, meditative Zen school, the pietistic Jodo and Shin schools, and nationalistic Nichiren school. Unlike the Mahayana branch, the Theravada branch of Buddhism practice in Southeast Asia does not have schools or sects in the same sense.