With some 16,000 missionaries scattered in 150 countries, Korea is second only to the United States in the number of missionaries leaving its shores...
Similarly traders, adventurers, and warriors left, and continue to leave, their places of birth to satisfy the desire for power, wealth or knowledge...
The world's first evangelist, in the figurative sense of the word, was Gautam Buddha. Founder of the world's first universalist religion, Buddha urged his disciples to fan out to the four corners of the earth to spread the teachings of Dharma: "Go forth, O monks, for the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world. Teach, O monks, the Dharma." It was thanks to the zeal of Indian, Chinese, and other monks who traversed thousands of miles of the most inhospitable terrain that the Buddhist faith was carried to China, Korea, Japan and southeast Asia...
Nayan Chanda
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