âWell, what was Japan? It was the end of the line of the Silk Road. For millennia, people and objects, knowledge and cultural traditions, religion and philosophy flowed here from Persia, India, Tibet, Korea, China, Java, Siam, and the South Seas. Japan, a group of islands removed from the turmoil of the continent, took these things and slowly polished them. As centuries went by, Buddhism vanished from India, Chinese dynasties came and went, but their cultural treasures, like time capsules packed off and sent to another planet, survived destruction in their countries of origin â in Japan. This country ended up as a giant storehouse of ancient Asian wisdom. Within Japan, for a thousand years Kyoto was the capital, and so, compressed into this small space, the best and most precious were further refined.â
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