Which people were responsible for the spread of Hinduism throughout southeast Asia?
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The dominant form of Hinduism exported to Southeast Asia was Shaivism, though some Vaishnavism was also known there. Later, from the 9th century onward, Tantrism, both Hindu and Buddhist, spread throughout the region.
Hinduism and Buddhism spread across southeast Asia remarkably.
This spread exerted an enormous impact on the civilizations of Southeast Asia and expanded phenomenally for the development of a written trend those continents.
At the beginning of the Common Era, Indian merchants had settled at those places, bringing with them Brahmans and Buddhist monks along with them.
These religious people were patronized by kings who subsequently converted to Hinduism or Buddhism.
The earliest realistic evidence of Hinduism in Southeast Asia was found in Borneo, where late 4th-century Sanskrit inscriptions prove the performance of Vedic sacrifices by Brahmans in front of local chiefs.
Shaivism was dominantly the section of Hinduism that was exported to Southeast Asia.