Buddhist mythology operates within the Buddhist belief system. It is a relatively broad mythology, as it was adopted and influenced by several diverse cultures such as Gandhara (Peshawar, Pakistan) which was the capital of Bactria. Later on, it also came to incorporate aspects from countries such as China and Japan. As such, it includes many aspects taken from other mythologies of those cultures. Saraswati is a Hindu Deva from Gandahara, Pakistan and the kami are considered to be local, Japanese bodhisattvas by many Japanese Buddhists).
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“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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