A. As early as the second or third century B.C. Five of Dharmāshoka's monks are said—in the Samanta Pasādika and the Sārattha Dīpanī—two Pālī books—to have been sent to the five divisions of China.
307. Q. Whence and when did it reach Korea?
A. From China, in the year A. D. 372.
308. Q. Whence and when did it reach Japan?
A. From Korea, in A. D. 552.
309. Q. Whence and when did it reach Cochin China, Formosa, Java, Mongolia, Yorkand, Balk, Bokhara, Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries?
A. Apparently in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D.
310. Q. From Ceylon, whither and when did it spread?
A. To Burma, in A.D. 450, and thence gradually into Arakan, Kamboya and Pegu. In the seventh century (A.D. 638) it spread to Siam, where it is now, as it has been always since then, the State religion.
311. Q. From Kashmir, where else did it spread besides to China?