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title: "SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD"  
description: "Indian Culture and Civilization is spread in various parts of the world by means of voluntary acceptance of cultural and spiritual values of India"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-11  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1544/spread-of-indian-culture-abroad  
category: "education"  
tags: ["Culture", "Indian culture", "cultural spread", "Indian heritage", "Indian history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD

![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/c4b4f77b-ab73-4551-8a89-0d4b1ce38356.jpeg) ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/7a29ee52-8710-463b-adcd-df329d632a20.jpeg) Central Asia was a great centre of Indian culture in the early centuries of the Christian era. ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/18ff56b5-a0da-449a-8e8b-059de908e6af.jpeg) The ivory work found in Begram (Afghanistan) is similar to Indian workmanship in Kushan times. ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/da7cf8a2-479b-4fc4-973b-ec6bdaa7ba9d.jpeg) Indian culture had also spread to Tibet and China through central Asia ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/3ae5f69f-9725-40ec-b885-902c5b7028e9.jpeg) Buddhism reached China at the beginning of the first century CE and from there it spread to Japan ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/dd0eba4f-e267-47e2-9e93-61bd9db4e0b1.jpeg) The Sailendra empire emerged as the important empire in southeast Asia ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/2200079d-882b-424d-a770-a5c3b9ab4869.jpeg) Rajaraja Ⅰ – Chola king allowed the Sailendra king – Maravijayottungavarman to build a Buddhist ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/2e004b54-8276-470d-a46e-949cb246b091.jpeg) Indian settlements in the Indian ocean continued till the 13th century. ![SPREAD OF INDIAN CULTURE ABROAD](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/69562068-c2f0-4d94-a3d4-1e257c0702a2/images/520aa82f-b7ed-4590-bb16-4b926d43fcee.jpeg) The cultural contacts between India and Burma (Myanmar) date back to the period of Ashoka

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