I should expand. Ashoka the great sent buddhist missionaries into the west in about 300bc. The expansion of the roman silk road allowed for unprecidented mixtures of cultures and alexander's conquest into the east further drove the cultural mixing.
Jesus is just the most obvious focal point for the hybridization of these two cultures.
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