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>If such a missionary were Buddhist, the result would be the persecution and adulteration of native rituals (as occurred later with the introduction of Indian Buddhism), rather than the adaptive and corrective assimilation that Gnostics perform, removing everything that is violent and contrary to the Spirit and the Light without acculturating or demeaning the cultures of the people

>It is impossible to doubt the notorious Gnostic and Manichaean structure and basis of Bon, elements of which slowly passed into Tibetan Buddhism over the centuries. The Gospel of Mani itself confirms this at its very beginning

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