Buddhist philosophy arrived in China in about early centuries of the years A. D. Buddhism is a major faith today in East and Southeast Asia. How did Buddhism become a major belief system in China, Japan, the Koreans, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos? Conquest; Buddhist monks conquered all of East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Buddhism was diffused along trade routes such as the Silk Road.

European missionaries brought Buddhism to East and Southeast Asia.

Zen pandas introduced Buddhism in East Asia and Southeast Asia.