Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t2.48

v1.c6.s2.t2.48

The Silk Road not only carried Chinese porcelain, gun powder and paper but also the art of accupuncture and pulse examination to the West. Similar was the case when Indian spices, precious stones traversed to foreign lands, Buddhist philosophy and the pragmatic knowledge went along. Just as medicine came in handy to the Christian missionaries, it became bait for the sympathetic reception of Buddhist faith in China. Silk Route, which linked China to India, Arabia and further west, was thus a bridge between the eastern and Western civilisations where along with exchange of goods it promoted scientific exchanges and mutual cooperation in their development.