It took the form of a monasticism included in Brahmanism, and remained a part of the Hindoo religion.

And so, when the crisis came and the conflict began, this Hindoo Protestantism maintained itself for a long time in India, as Lutheranism continued for a century in Italy, Spain, and Austria.

But it was at last driven out of its birthplace, as Protestantism was driven from Italy and Spain; and now only the ruins of its topes, its temples, and its monasteries remain to show how extensive was its former influence in the midst of Brahmanism.
Sec.2.Extent of Buddhism.

Its Scriptures.
Yet, though expelled from India, and unable to maintain its control over any Aryan race, it has exhibited a powerful propagandist element, and so has converted to its creed the majority of the Mongol nations.

It embraces nearly or quite (for statistics here are only guesswork)[98] three hundred millions of human beings.