Tao Te Ching

“the idolaters say that it is the sepulchre of Sagamoni Borcan [Shakyamuni Buddha], before whose time there were no idols. They hold him to have been the best of men, a great saint in fact, and the first in whose name idols were made.”

— Marco Polo 1254 – 1324 CE
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