Read the passage below and answer the question. “Early Buddhist art did not portray the Buddha, but drawings made in the seventh and eighth centuries depict different scenes in the historical Buddha’s life, as well as other buddhas and bodhisattvas, who were believed to have turned back at the moment of attaining nirvana to help their fellow Buddhists still on earth.”
From Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (2015).
Which of the following most directly contributed to the developments described in the excerpt?

Choose 1

(Choice A)
A
The development of Greco-Buddhism

(Choice B)
B
The codification of the first Buddhist texts

(Choice C)
C
The emergence of Mahayana Buddhism

(Choice D)
D
The spread of Theravada Buddhism