Buddhism with its protests against brahmanism served the same great historical purposes and from Magadha to Taxila was one great Buddhistic empire which succeeded not only in broadening the basis of Indian unity, but in creating what is perhaps more important, the greater India beyond the Himalayas and beyond the seas, so much so that the sacred city where we have met may be regarded as a place of pilgrimage of millions and millions of people of Asiatic races.
"Freedom Through Disobedience"
C. R. (Chittaranjan) Das
The religion of Confucius belongs to China, that of brahmanism to India, that of Zoroaster to the Persians; the religion of Egypt is only for the Egyptians.
"Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors"
James Freeman Clarke
For transmigration is no theory of Buddhism at all, but was a leading tenet in the far older faith of brahmanism, of which Buddhism was but an offshoot, as was Christianity of Judaism.
"The Soul of a People"
H. Fielding