Ulaanbaatar, April 25: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said that India is reviving its Buddhist heritage through its ties with Mongolia and that the two countries are more spiritual partners than strategic. “Buddhism has been a great connector of civilisations since millennia,” Sushma Swaraj said while addressing the birth centenary celebrations of Kushok Bakula Rinpoche, a highly revered Buddhist leader and monk from Ladakh and a former Ambassador of India to Mongolia. Bakula Rinpoche, as the longest serving Indian Ambassador to Mongolia, made seminal contribution to promotion of India-Mongolia ties. “Even though Buddhism originated in India, it spread across the mighty Himalayas to East Asia and across the seas in southeast Asia,” Sushma Swaraj said. “Eventually, it also made its way to the vast steppes of Mongolia where it has found a permanent abode for over two millennia.”