El Loto de Oro

El Loto de Oro is a timeline exploring a Buddhist domination in the mid-16th through mid-17th centuries in Western Europe

Point of Divergence
The PoD is set after the Portuguese and Spanish missions to Japan in 1543. Following some interaction between some Spanish priests and Japanese Buddhist monks, the former decided to convert to Buddhist amidst the chaos that was Christian Europe. The priests later returned to Portugal and Spain where they spread their Buddhist faith and flourished. The European Buddhistsm mostly in Iberia, but some in France and the Holy Roman Empire flourished until 1552, when the Pope declared Buddhism a threat to Christianity and ordered a persecution of all Buddhists, leading to approximately 17,000 deaths and numerous displacements. While the Buddhists did not act due to doctrine, the final straw was during a Christian Sacking of a Buddhist-majority village and a burning of the temple in Pamplona.