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How Did the Monks Devoted to Buddhism Change His Teachings

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How did the monks devoted to Buddhism change his teachings in the years after Buddha?s death?


A) They offered miraculous tales of Buddha?s life, equated Nirvana with heaven, and stressed the salvationist qualities of the new religion.
B) They sought to downplay Buddha as a deity, attempted to limit admission to the religion to the upper-caste groups, and gained the cooperation of the brahmins.
C) They began to emphasize ritual sacrifices of animals as a means of gaining the confidence of the people.
D) The monks ended the Buddha?s emphasis on meditation and taught that all men were condemned to endless reincarnation.

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