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The Christian Desert Fathers of Egypt sound like they practiced Buddhist-style meditation and had some very Buddhist views on things. What happened to them, and why did their meditation practices never spread throughout the rest of of Christendom?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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