I fear you might have a strong misconception about what constitutes as a religion.
Christian prayer beads and prayer meditation came through the Silk Road, even the ones risking life introducing silkworms to Europe were Buddhist monks.
Sure, we are not a religion, just the fourth largest one, with numerous places of worship, rituals, various factions (I'm a Zen Buddhist), the faith has its own version of its heaven and hell, it has samsara and reincarnation, but other than that, totally not a religion, and there totally wasn't a Sri Lankan woman, who claimed after a typhoon, that her house was spared (unlike the ones of a Christian and a Muslim) because she prayed to Buddha. Theraveda Buddhists absolutely don't view Buddha as a god, and the Dalai Lama never said it's a wrong practice. It's not customary for Buddhist males to serve a year as a monk, Thai monks totally don't buy pictures of brutally murdered women to not think about sex, and Cambodian monks so not rape monks in training, and treat them as ladyboys, nothing of the sort.
Yes, we too have our crazy, that's what you got right, but mistaking Buddhist philosophy or meditation for the whole thing is highly misleading. Yes, we don't have verses invoking or condoning violence, but Early Buddhism, including the founder wasn't kind to women. He thought being born as a woman meant a reincarnation of a previous sinful life, out of which there was no escape. He set up 7 types of wives, out of which he felt only 4 to be acceptable, which had in common a subservience to their husband.
On the bright side, people in Myanmar think about Christianity as you do about Buddhism, a small significance. It still would be worthy to know more, but that's up to the individual.
I live in the Gordius Apartment Complex, my interior designer was M.C. Esher.
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