Buddhist missionaries made use of both the overland Central Asian Silk Road and the maritime routes.Maspero 1981, pp. 401-405. Initially Buddhism was poorly understood and often confused with and mixed with Daoism.Chün-fang Yü (2020). Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History, p. 15. University of Hawaii Press The Chinese saw many similarities between the two religions.Maspero 1981, p. 409 There was also much criticism leveled at the new foreign religion by the Confucian elites.
