History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v1.c8.s3.6

v1.c8.s3.6

Whoever they were, they were the people who, in remote times, were apparently the worshippers of Trees and Serpents;¹ but what interests us more in them, and makes the enquiry into their history more desirable, is that it was where the people were largely of this aboriginal stock that Buddhism seems to have been most readily adopted, and it is largely among allied races that it is still adhered to. In Ceylon, Tibet, Burma, Siam, and China—wherever a people allied to the Mongol or Tibetan family exists, there Buddhism flourished and still prevails. But in India a revival of Brahmanism abolished it.