Some religious movements have embraced overt syncretism, such as the case of melding Shintō beliefs into Buddhism or the amalgamation of Germanic and Celtic pagan views into Christianity during its spread into Gaul, the British Isles, Germany, and Scandinavia.

Many non-Asian Canadians embraced Buddhism in various traditions and some have become leaders in their respective sanghas.

Buddhism was introduced by Baekje in the sixth century, but had a mixed reception until the Nara period, when it was heartily embraced by Emperor Shōmu.

Altan Khan invited the 3rd Dalai Lama to Mongolia again in 1571 and embraced Tibetan Buddhism.

They embraced Buddhism in the early part of the 17th century and belong to the Tibetan Buddhist sect known as the Gelugpa ( Virtuous Way ).

It greatly inspired Korean intellectuals at the time and many, predominantly from the middle class and disillusioned with the excesses of organized religion ( in the form of Buddhism ) and the old nobility, embraced neo-Confucianism.

Chandragupta's grandson Ashoka embraced the Buddhist faith and became a great proselytizer in the line of the traditional Pali canon of Theravada Buddhism, insisting on non-violence to humans and animals ( ahimsa ), and general precepts regulating the life of lay people.

The Ilkhanate initially embraced many religions, but was particularly sympathetic to Buddhism and Christianity.

Although the annexation of Kalinga was completed, Ashoka embraced the teachings of Buddhism, and renounced war and violence.

Ashoka initially practiced Hinduism but later embraced Buddhism ; following the Kalinga War, he renounced expansionism and aggression, and the harsher injunctions of the Arthashastra on the use of force, intensive policing, and ruthless measures for tax collection and against rebels.

Indian merchants embraced Buddhism and played a large role in spreading the religion across the Mauryan empire

When Ashoka embraced Buddhism in the latter part of his reign, he brought about significant changes in his style of governance, which included providing protection to fauna, and even relinquished the royal hunt.

When in A. D. 640 the Chinese traveller Hsuan Tsang visited Kanchi ( Conjevaram ), the capital of the Pallava king, he learned that the kingdom of Chola ( Chu-li-ya ) embraced but a small territory, wild, and inhabited by a scanty and fierce population ; in the Pandya kingdom ( Malakuta ), which was under Pallava suzerainty, literature was dead, Buddhism all but extinct, while Hinduism and the naked Jain saints divided the religious allegiance of the people, and the pearl fisheries continued to flourish.

A large church was transformed into a mosque, and according to one source, the " amir of Taraz " embraced Islam The Islamization of Central Asia was due in significant part to the activities of the Samanids, and in Taraz, other pre-existing religions such as Mazdaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Tengrism were gradually replaced.

When Ashoka embraced Buddhism in the latter part of his reign, he brought about significant changes in his style of governance, which included providing protection to fauna, and even relinquished the royal hunt.

Most traditionalists, like Guénon himself, found a way in Sufism, and accordingly they embraced Islam, but others, like Marco Pallis, found a way in Buddhism, and still others, like James Cutsinger belong to the Greek Orthodox Church.

Dards of Dras, Gilgit, Skardu, etc., embraced Islam after the Muslim invasion of India during the 14th century A. D. whereas the Dards of Da, Hanu, Bema, Darchik and Garkon did not accept this and gradually later accepted Buddhism.

The Mauryan emperor Ashoka ( 304 – 232 BC ), embraced Buddhism in the latter part of his reign and brought about significant changes in his style of governance.

From then on he embraced Tibetan Buddhism, although he never abandoned his Theravada roots and stayed in contact with Nyanatiloka and later with Nyanaponika.

More likely, Menander I may indeed have first supported Buddhism, like the other Indo-Greek kings, and was probably the main protagonist of the Milindapanha, on account of his described fame, whereas Menander II, a minor king, may have wholeheartedly embraced Buddhism, as exemplified by his coins.

Many non-Asian Canadians ( Namgyal Rinpoche, Glenn H. Mullin, and Richard Barron for instance ) have embraced Buddhism in various traditions and some have become leaders in their respective sanghas.

Although for governmental affairs he was Confucian in values, he embraced Buddhism as well.

The Sasanavamsa attests that a missionary went to Yonaka country and " established Buddha's Sasana in the lands of the Kambojas and other countries " Due to the efforts of Ashoka and his envoys the Zoroastrian as well as Hindu Kambojas appear to have embraced Buddhism in large numbers.

And Umar ibn Khattab had embraced Islam after forty-five men and twenty-one women.

While mostly in opposition during the 1930s, they embraced economic liberalism, but accepted the welfare state after the war and participated in governments supportive of state intervention and protectionism.

Like many members of older established aristocratic families in England, Oxford flirted with Catholicism ; after his return from Italy he was reported to have embraced the religion.

Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.

The politically powerless poor crofters embraced the popularly oriented, fervently evangelical Presbyterian revival after 1800, and the breakaway " Free Church " after 1843.

Emperor Chandragupta Maurya embraced Jainism after retiring.

One year after the United States invasion of the island, Dr. José Celso Barbosa embraced the idea of annexation as a U. S. state as a solution to the colonial situation and founded the Republican Party in 1899.

For example, mind-melding before the ancient teachings were recovered was considered immoral ; after, it was embraced as the legacy of all Vulcans.

Also in the late 1970s, after the first wave of punk rock, many skinheads embraced Oi !, a working class punk subgenre.

When Minh arrived at a military parade in his jeep before the reviewing stand after the victories, Diệm embraced him and kissed both cheeks.

Frank Lennon's photograph, taken moments after the goal and showing a jubilant Henderson being embraced by Yvan Cournoyer, has been " etched into the visual cortex of every Canadian.

Some suggest that the town was named after the Chiliasts religion embraced by some of the early settlers of South Chili.

Preston Brooks achieved notoriety for his brutal attack on Massachusetts abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate Chamber in 1856 after Sumner delivered a speech comparing slavery to a harlot and slaveholders to those who embraced her, to which Brooks objected violently.

Originally a progressive rock band, Journey experienced strong resentment from many music critics after they embraced the pop sensibilities of the 1980s with smash hits like " Don't Stop Believin '" and " Open Arms "; Q magazine ranked Escape 15th in its " Records it's OK to Love " in 2006.

However, managers in Japan embraced their ideas enthusiastically and even named their premier annual prize for manufacturing excellence after Deming.

" He sorrowfully says that he has no brothers left now after Ricky's death, but is embraced by Tre, who says Doughboy still has " one brother left ", referring to himself.

Especially after the technology boom of the 1980s, both sides of the aisle have generally embraced the notion that government-funded basic research is essential for the nation's economic health and global competitiveness, as well as for the national defense.

He then returned to more practical matters and, after receiving MacDonald's report, he suddenly embraced the general and elevated him to the dignity of Maréchal d ' Empire, the only Marshal to receive the title on a field of battle.

Shortly there after, Lauren Bercovitch, the production manager at Adbusters Media Foundation publicly embraced the principles of Occupy Christmas telling The Fulcrum.

He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over Denmark, when subsequent monarchs embraced Lutheranism after the Reformation.

It shows the two stone crosses found near the village of Eivindvik that are believed to be about 1000 years old, erected there after the Vikings who met at the Gulating gathering embraced Christianity.

The leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ) sought a rapprochement with Griffith over the British threat of conscription, which both parties condemned, but Griffith refused unless the IPP embraced his more radical and subversive ideals, a suggestion which John Dillon, a leader of the IPP rubbished as unrealistic, although it would ultimately mean the defeat and dissolution of the IPP after the election in December 1918.

By that time, many people questioned eugenics after Nazi Germany had embraced it to create a " master race ".