>>23141161I hear a lot of talk about Japan, but not much of Korea/Northern China which were almost continually controlled by Tartars. You cannot read Korean early history without reading about the Saka tribe, Sarmatians, or Scythians. The fact that we can't even talk about Saka and Sakya tribe being near identical in pronunciation and coincidentally having the same type of iconography is almost entirely due to pagan revisionism. The more you read about Buddhism's early interaction with Asia the more the picture pans out, they were expelled more times than jews were in the west and things like the Bon festival were originally the one day granted for Buddhists to enact debt collections. In order to convince the Chinese to use paper money Mongols had to threaten them with death. Also some areas near Korea were outright savage like the wild Jurchens, the Forbidden city itself was a diocese just before Ming started and the Ming emperor himself was a Buddhist monk, there's no lineage for him he was a random vagrant turned monk. It's wild how almost all known history of Asia starts around 1200 AD, everything before this is speculative at best.
