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How did Buddhism go from being about a monk's journey to enlightenment to a popular religion? That is, what process made non-monks identify as 'Buddhists' and what was early relationship between the monastic community and non-monastic Buddhists like? What brought them to the monasteries?

by /u/jurble in /r/AskHistorians

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