Monday 25 February 2013

How Adi Shankara destroyed Buddhism and founded ‘Hinduism’ in the 8th century


Why did Buddhism disappear from Bharat?
Jainism was in full swing in India prior to Hinduism. All royal people were influenced by Jain monks and there speech on ruthless Hindu Kshatriya or warrior dharma/religion of protection & offense. They highlighted the path of peace and salvation that could only be attained by Jainism.
The Brahmins performed a great Puja and earnestly prayed Lord Shiva to stop the progress of Jainism. According to aggressive Hindu beliefs Adi Shankaracharya was born. Regarding Shankaracharya it is said in at least one case he was not able to answer questions placed by a married woman regarding sex and he was not aware of sexual behaviors because being a Brahmin he was performing vrat of Brahmcharya where a person is supposed to fight back any sexual thoughts arising in mind. Hence his knowledge regarding sex was either zero or in infancy or very less as compared to sex indulged people of his age. http://rupeenews.com/2010/10/how-adi-shankara-destroyed-buddhism-and-founded-hinduism-in-the-8th-century/
The antics of Adi Shankara in the 8th century assuming he was born in 788 and died in 820 CE are well known and part of history. Sankara postulated the Vedas as authority; and hence was ranked as a Sanatani. Later on, the priestly class appropriated this and Max Muller called it Hinduism. Thus Hinduism dates back to to the 8th century.
He was the arch foe of Buddhism and the principal architect of its downfall in India (Pande 1994: p. 255). Adi Shankara, along with Madhva and Ramanuja, was instrumental in the revival of Hinduism through aggressive and violent means.
The historians like Vincent Smith suggested that it was due to Adi Sankaracharya there wasdecline of Buddhism in India. Others argue that it was due to the Muslim invasion (of Bakhtyar) that Nalanda was routed and the library there was burned and thousands of Buddha viharas were destroyed subsequently. Much of this is described in The Book of Thoth(Leaves of Wisdom).
Shashanka was the Shaivite Brahmin king of Bengal. He was manipulated by the Brahmins to become a ferocious oppressor of the Buddhists. He had destroyed the Bodhi tree of Bodh Gaya and ordered the mass destruction of all Buddhist images and monasteries in his kingdom.
1. Lal, V. 2004. Buddhism’s Disappearance from India [serial online]. [cited 2009 August 26]; [2 screens]. Available from
2. Jaini, P.S., Narain A.K., ed., 1980. The Disappearance of Buddhism and the Survival of Jainism: A Study in Contrast. Studies in History of Buddhism. Delhi: B.R. Publishing Company:181-91.
3. Ahir, D.C. 2005. Buddhism Declined in India: How and Why? Delhi: B.R. Publishing.
Prof. P. Sankaranarayanan in his article The life and work of Sri Sankara published in the web page of Kanchi Mutt writes: “Buddhism, the rebel child of the Vedic religion and philosophy, denied God and the soul, laid the axe at the very roots of Vedic thought and posed a great danger to its very survival. This onslaught was stemmed occasionally, compelling Buddhism to seek refuge in other lands. While the credit for this should go primarily to the Mimamsaka, Kumarila Bhatta, it was because of Sri Sankara’s dialectical skill and irrefutable arguments that it ceased to have sway over the minds of the inheritors of Vedic religion.” 
The hold of Buddhism on the masses of India could be seen from the writing of celebrated Chinese pilgrim Faxian (334-420 AD). He made a journey that marked the high point of the first wave of Chinese pilgrims in India. He left China in 399 AD and returned in 414 AD. We see that even two centuries later the religion was hardly weakened as may be gleaned from the detailed historic accounts of the reign of Harshavardhana (606-647AD). The sources for such accounts are: coins and inscriptions, the reports of pilgrims, official Chinese documents and writings by well-known personalities like the Chinese travelerHuien Tsang.
Though a Hindu, King Harshavardhana maintained an impartial tolerance towards the other religions, especially Buddhism that at that time was the religion of the common masses. To honor Huien Tsang, a devout student Buddhist theology and admirer of the holy land of Buddha, Harshavardhana organized the Kanauj Assembly in 643 AD. This was a grand assembly of many rajas including King Bhaskaravarman of Kamrupa (Assam) and the Vallabhi king, Dhuvabhatti. The Assembly at Kanauj included a large congregation of Brahmans, Buddhist monks ands Jains, who were involved in religious discourses. We should not forget to mention that Huien Tsang, along with thousands of students from many countries, studied in the well-known Buddhist university of Nalanda. If so, how could the religion that Sankara opposed and helped drive out of India flourish
T1) The Divyavadana (ed. Vaidya, 282). The most important of the murderous Hindu bigots who carried out their systematic campaign of violence against the peaceful followers of Lord Buddhawas Pushyamitra (184-48 B.C.), the founder of the Shunga dynasty. For details and refrences do see BELOW
2) Goyal [430] “The culprit in this case was Toramana, a member of the same dynasty as the Shaivite Mihirakula who did “immense damage to the Buddhist shrines in Gandhara, Punjab and Kashmir.” For details and refrences do see BELOW
3) Mihirakula is said to have razed 1600 viharas, stupas and monasteries, and “put to death 900 Kotis, or lay adherents of Buddhism” [Joshi, 404].
4) The Aryamanjushrimulakalpa tells us that Pushyamitra “destroyed monasteries with relics and killed monks of good conduct.” [Jayaswal, 18-19]
5) As Goyal [394] notes, “According to many scholars hostility of the Brahmanas was one of the major causes of the decline of Buddhism in India.”
6) The celebrated Tibetan historian Lama Taranatha mentions the march of Pushyamitra from Madhyadesha to Jalandhara. In the course of his campaigns, the book states, Pushyamitra burned down numerous Buddhist monasteries and killed a number of learned monks The archaeological evidence for the ravages wrought by Pushyamitra and other Hindu fanatic rulers on famous Buddhist shrines is abundant.
7) The Brhannaradiya-purana lays it down as a principal sin for a Brahmana to enter the house of a Buddhist even in times of great peril.
8) The drama Mrchchhakatika shows that in Ujjain the Buddhist monks were despised and their sight was considered inauspicious.
9) The Vishnupurana (XVIII 13-18) also regards the Buddha as Mayamoha who appeared in the world to delude the demons. Kumarila is said to have instigated King Sudhanvan of Ujjain to exterminate the Buddhists.
10) The Kerala-utpatti describes how he exterminated the Buddhists from Kerala.”
11) The Chinese traveller Yuan Chwang (Huen Tsang), who visited India in the seventh century records the oppressions of Shashanka, the king of Gauda, who was a devotee of Shiva.
12) Yuan Chwang’s account reads, “In recent times Shashanka, the enemy and oppressor of Buddhism, cut down the Bodhi tree, destroyed its roots down to the water and burned what remained.” [Watters II p.115] He also says that Shashanka tried “to have the image (of Lord Buddha at Bodhgaya) removed and replaced by one of Shiva”.
13) Another independent account of Shashanka’s oppressions is found in the Aryamanjushrimulakalpa, which refers to Shashanka destroying “the beautiful image of Buddha” [Jayaswal, 49-50].
14) Another prominent seventh century murderer of Buddhists was Sudhanvan of Ujjain, already mentioned in the quotation from Goyal above as having been supposedly instigated by Kumarila Bhatt.
15) Madhava Acharya, in his “Sankara-digvijayam” of the fourteenth century A.D., records that Suddhanvan “issued orders to put to death all the Buddhists from Ramesvaram to the Himalayas”.
16) Even after the Islamic invasions of India, Hindu bigotry and hatred for Buddhists was not subdued. According to Sharmasvamin, a Tibetan pilgrim who visited Bihar three decades after the invasion of Bakhtiaruddin Khilji in the 12th century, the biggest library at Nalanda was destroyed by Hindu mendicants who took advantage of the chaos produced by the invasion.
He says that “they (Hindus) performed a Yajna, a fire sacrifice, and threw living embers and ashes from the sacrifice into the Buddhist temples. This produced a great conflagration which consumed Ratnabodhi, the
nine-storeyed library of the Nalanda University“. [Prakash, 213]. Numerous destroyed Buddhist shrines were converted into Hindu temples after their destruction.
17) Ahir [58] notes that “The Seat of Buddha’s Enlightenment was in the possession of a Hindu Mahant till 1952.
18) Similarly, at Kushinara, where the Buddha had entered into Mahaparinirvana, the cremation stupa had been converted into a Hindu temple, and on top of it stood the temple of Rambhar Bhavani when
Cunningham discovered the site in 1860-61.
19) Among the shrines which still continue to be dedicated to Hindu gods mention may be made of the Caityas of Chezrala and Ter in Andhra Pradesh which are now Shiva and Vishnu temples respectively.
20) The temple of Madhava at Sal Kusa, opposite Gauhati in Asam, was once a sacred shrine of the Buddhists. …
21) And the famous Jagannatha temple at Puri in Orissa was also originally a Buddhist shrine.
22) Similarly, the Vishnupada temple at Gaya was also once a Buddhist shrine.” As Rajendralal Mitra notes in his famous work of 1878 [quoted in Ahir, 59] the feet of Buddha at Gaya were rechristened the feet of Vishnu and held as the most sacred object of worship in the new Vishnupada temple.
23) According to the records of Hieun Tsang and Kalhana’s Rajaatarangini, Asoka the great repented, converted to Buddhism (273-232 BC) and did a lot for Buddhism. Asoka renounced violence, and renounced his religion after the Kalinga war, and he became a Buddhist. During Asoka, Buddhism had become the state religion. The Brahmans did not like him, and many historians think the Brahaman opposition to Asoka led to the destruction of the Muyarian dynasty.
says the following about the Kushans (emphasis is mine and not Nehru’s): ” This Kushan Empire is interesting in many ways. IT WAS A BUDDHIST EMPIRE, and one of its famous rulers-the Emperor Kanishka-was ardently devoted to the dharma…the Kushans were Mongolians or closely allied to them. From the Kushan capital there must have been a continuous coming and going to the Mongolian homelands, and Buddhist learning and Buddhist culture must have gone to China and Mongolia…the Kushan Empire sat like a colossus astride the back of Asia, in between the Greaco-Roman world in the south. It was a halfway house both between India, and Rome, and India and China. The Kushan period corresponded with the last days of the Roman Republic when Julius Ceaser was alive, and first 200 years of the Roman Empire
25) THE HINDU KASHATRIYA HINDU AND BUDDHIST WARS
Jawarhalal Nehru in his book Glimpses of World History says (Page 103 and 104) “Chandragupta proclaimed his holy war “against all foreign rulers in India. The Kashatriyas and the Aryan aristocracy, deprived of their power and positions by the aliens (Kushans), were at the back of this war. After a dozen or so years of fighting, Chandragupta managed to gain control over Northern India including what is now called UP. He then crowned himself king of kings. Thus began the Gupta dynasty. It was a period of somewhat aggressive Hinduism and nationalism. The foreign rulers-the Turkis and Parathions and other Non-Aryans were rooted our and forcibly removed. We thus find racial antagonism at work. The Indo-Aryan aristocrat was proud of his race and looked down upon these barbarians and malachas. Indo-Aryan States and rulers were conquered by the Guptas were dealt with leniently, But there was not leniency for non-Aryans.
26) Jawarhalal Nehru in his book Glimpses of World History says “Chandragupta’s son Samadugupta was an even more aggressive fighter than his father….the Kushans were pushed back across the Indus…Samadugupta’s son, Chandragupta II was also a warrior king, and he conquered Kathiwad and Gujrat, which had been under the rule of a Saka or Turki dynasty for a long time. He took the name Vikramaditya…..The Gupta period was a period of Hindu imperialism in India. There was a great revival of old Aryan culture and Sanskrit learning. The Hellenistic, or Greek and Mongolian elements in Indian life and culture which had been brought by the Greeks, Kushans and others were not encouraged, and were in fact deliberately superseded by laying stress on the Indo-Aryan traditions. Sanskrit was the official court language. But EVEN IN THOSE DAYS SANSKRIT WAS NOT THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE.
The spoken language was a form of Prakrit….Kalidasa belonged to this period ……………. Samadragupta changed the capital of his empire from Pataliputra (Peshawar) to Ayodhia. Perhaps he felt that Ayodhiya
offered a more suitable outlook–with its story of Ramachandra immortalized in Valmikis epic.
27) HINDU BUDDHIST CONFLICT
Jawarhalal Nehru in his book Glimpses of World History says “The Gupta revival of Aryanism and Hinduism was naturally not very favorably inclined towards Buddhism. This was partly because this movement was aristocratic, with the Kashatriya chiefs backing it, and Buddhism had more democracy in it; partly because the Mahayana form of Buddhism was closely associated with the Kushans and other alien rulers of northern India….but Buddhism declined in India…Chandragupta the first was a contemporary of Constantine the great, the Roman Emperor who founded Constantinople. “
The Buddha was a true revolutionary—and his crusade against Brahminical supremacy won him his most ardent followers from among the oppressed castes. The Buddha challenged the divinity of the Vedas, the bedrock of Brahminism. He held that all men are equal and that the caste system or varnashramadharma, to which the Vedas and Other Brah’minical’ books had given religious sanction, was completely false. Thus, in the Anguttara Nikaya, the Buddha is said to have exhorted the Bhikkus, saying,
“Just, O brethren, as the great rivers, when they have emptied themselves into the Great Ocean, lose their different names and are known as the Great Ocean Just so, O brethren, do the four varnas—Kshatriya, Brahmin, Vaishya and Sudra—when they begin to follow the doctrine and discipline propounded by the Tathagata [i.e. the Buddha], renounce the different names of caste and rank and become the members of one and the same society.”
The Buddha’s fight against Brahminism won him many enemies from among the Brahmins. They were not as greatly opposed to his philosophical teachings as they were to his message of universal brotherhood and equality for it directly challenged their hegemony and the scriptures that they had invented to legitimize this. To combat Buddhism and revive the tottering Brahminical hegemony, Brahminical revivalists resorted to a three-pronged strategy.
Firstly, they launched a campaign of hatred and persecution against the Buddhists. Then, they appropriated many of the finer aspects of Buddhism into their own system so as to win over the “lower” caste Buddhist masses, but made sure that this selective appropriation did not in any way undermine Brahminical hegemony. The final stage in this project to wipeout Buddhism was to propound and propagate the myth that the Buddha was merely another ‘incarnation’ (avatar) of the Hindu god Vishnu. Buddha was turned into just another of the countless deities of the Brahminical pantheon. The Buddhists were finally absorbed into the caste system, mainly as Shudras and ‘Untouchables’, and with that the Buddhist presence was completely obliterated from the land of its birth. Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar writes in his book, The Untouchables, that the ancestors of today’s Dalits were Buddhists who were reduced to the lowly status of ‘untouchables’ for not having accepted the supremacy of the Brahmins. They were kept apart from other people and were forced to live in ghettos of their own. Being treated worse that beasts of burden and forbidden to receive any education, these people gradually lost touch with Buddhism, but yet never fully reconciled themselves to the Brahminical order. Many of them later converted to Islam, Sikhism and Christianity in a quest for liberation from the Brahminical religion.
To lend legitimacy to their campaign against Buddhism, Brahminical texts included fierce strictures against Buddhists. Manu, in his Manusmriti, laid down that, “If a person touches a Buddhist […] he shall purify himself by having a bath.” Aparaka ordained the same in his Smriti. Vradha Harit declared entry into a Buddhist temple a sin, which could only be expiated for by taking a ritual bath. Even dramas and other books for lay people written by Brahmins contained venomous propaganda against the Buddhists. In the classic work, Mricchakatika, (Act VII), the hero Charudatta, on seeing a Buddhist monk pass by, exclaims to his friend Maitriya— “Ah! Here is an inauspicious sight, a Buddhist monk coming towards us.”
The Brahmin Chanakya, author of Arthashastra, declared that, “When a person entertains in a dinner dedicated to gods and ancestors those who are Sakyas (Buddhists), Ajivikas, Shudras and exiled persons, a fine of one hundred panas shall be imposed on him.” Shankaracharaya, the leader of the Brahminical revival, struck terror into the hearts of the Buddhists with his diatribes against their religion.
The simplicity of the Buddha’s message, its stress on equality and its crusade against the bloody and costly sacrifices and ritualism of Brahminism had attracted the oppressed casts in large numbers. The Brahminical revivalists understood the need to appropriate some of these finer aspects of Buddhism and discarded some of the worst of their own practices so as to be able to win over the masses back to the Brahminical fold. Hence began the process of the assimilation of Buddhism by Brahminism.
The Brahimns, who were once voracious beef-eaters, turned vegetarian, imitating the Buddhists in this regard. Popular devotion to the Buddha was sought to be replaced by devotion to Hindu gods such as Rama and Krishna. The existing version of the Mahabharata was written in the period in which the decline of Buddhism had already begun, and it was specially meant for the Shudras, most of whom were Buddhists, to attract them away from Buddhism. Brahminism, however, still prevented the Shudras from having access to the Vedas, and the Mahabharata was possibly written to placate the Buddhist Shudras and to compensate them for this discrimination.
The Mahabharata incorporated some of the humanistic elements of Buddhism to win over the Shudras, but, overall, played its role of bolstering the Brahminical hegemony rather well. Thus, Krishna, in the Gita, is made to say that a person ought not to violate the “divinely ordained” law of caste. Eklavya is made to slice off his thumb by Drona, who is finds it a gross violation of dharma that a mere tribal boy should excel the Kshatriya Arjun in archery.
The various writer of the puranas, too, carried on this systematic campaign of hatred, slander and calumny against the Buddhists. The Brahannardiya Purana made it a principal sin for Brahmins to enter the house of a Buddhist even in times of great peril. The Vishnu Purana dubs the Buddha as Maha Moha or ‘the great seducer’. It further cautions against the “sin of conversing with Buddhists” and lays down that “those who merely talk to Buddhist ascetics shall be sent to hell.”
In the Gaya Mahatmaya, the concluding section of the Vayu Purana, the town of Gaya is identified as Gaya Asura, a demon who had attained such holiness that all those who saw him or touched him went straight to heaven. Clearly, this ‘demon’ was none other the Buddha who preached a simple way for all, including the oppressed castes, to attain salvation. The Vayu Purana story goes on to add that Yama, the king of hell, grew jealous at this, possibly because less people were now entering his domains. He appealed to the gods to limit the powers of Asura Gaya. This the gods, led by Vishnu, were able to do by placing a massive stone on the “demon’s” head. This monstrous legend signified the ultimate capture of Budhdhism’s most holy centre by its most inveterate foes.
Kushinagar, also known as Harramba, was one of the most important Buddhist centres as the Buddha breathed his last there. The Brahmins, envious of the prosperity of this pilgrim town and in order to discourage people from going there, invented the absurd theory that one who dies in Harramba goes to hell, or is reborn as an ass, while he who dies in Kashi, the citadel of Brahminism, goes straight to heaven. So pervasive was the belief in this bizarre theory that when the Sufi saint Kabir died in 1518 AD at Maghar, not far from Kushinagar, some of his Hindu followers refused to erect any memorial in his honor there and instead set up one at Kashi. Kabir’s Muslim followers were less superstitious. They set up a tomb for him at Maghar itself.
In addition to vilifying the fair name of the Buddha, the Brahminical revivalists goaded Hindu kings to persecute and even slaughter innocent Buddhists. Sasanka, the Shaivite Brahmin king of Bengal, murdered the last Buddhist emperor Rajyavardhana, elder brother of Harshavardhana, in 605 AD and then marched on to Bodh Gaya where he destroyed the Bodhi tree under which the Buddha had attained enlightenment. He forcibly removed the Buddha’s image from the Bodh Vihara near the tree and installed one of Shiva in its place.
Finally, Sasanka is said to have slaughtered all the Buddhist monks in the area around Kushinagar. Another such Hindu king was, Mihirakula, a Shaivite, who is said to have completely destroyed over 1500 Buddhist shrines. The Shaivite Toramana is said to have destroyed the Ghositarama Buddhist monastery at Kausambi.
The extermination of Buddhism in India was hastened by the large-scale destruction and appropriation of Buddhist shrines by the Brahmins. The Mahabodhi Vihara at Bodh Gaya was forcibly converted into a Shaivite temple, and the controversy lingers on till this day. The cremation stupa of the Buddha at Kushinagar was changed into a Hindu temple dedicated to the obscure deity with the name of Ramhar Bhavani. Adi Shankara is said to have established his Sringeri Mutth on the site of a Buddhist monastery which he took over. Many Hindu shrines in Ayodhya are said to have once been Buddhist temples, as is the case with other famous Brahminical temples such as those at Sabarimala, Tirupati, Badrinath and Puri.
References:
4. Yu-Ki Or, Buddhist Records of the Western Countries written by Hsien-tsang (circa 650 AD). Taken from Translations by Thomas Watters (1904) and Samuel Beal (1884) http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Hsien-Tsang.htm)
5. Messengers of light: Chinese Buddhist pilgrims in India by Paul Magnin Unesco Courier, Vol. 48 No.5 May.1995 Pp.24-27.
6. Discovery of India by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
http://rupeenews.com/2009/03/24/the-manuwadi-hindus-destroyed-buddhism-in-its-own-land-of-birth/
Recently we read in the Mississauga’s Weekly Voice dated December 5, 2009 relating to the Crowning Glory entitled “Politician Donates $10 million Crown for Tirupati Deity.” It is also most remarkable that medical surgeon Dr. K. Jamanadas writes a book entitled “Tirupate Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine” and this book has potential credibility to accept that Buddha statues become God Vishnu in Hinduism. Hindu rulers made the shiva linga in the Buddhagaya temple and declared that Buddhagaya Mahabodhi Temple belongs to Hindus. Today Indian Buddhists have no democratic and human rights in the Puri Jagannatha Buddhist temple and Mahabodhi temple of Buddhagaya, Bihar. Hindu fanatic are taking over Mosque, Buddhist temples and churches in India. There are no human rights in Hindu society. Non-violence is the supreme religion in Buddhist philosophy. Violence or tragedy of caste system is the Vedic way of life in Hinduism. Hindu fanatics burnt Buddhist monks and Buddhists alive.
The ruthless manner in which all the buildings at Nagarjuna Konda were destroyed is simply appalling and cannot represent the work of treasure seekers because many of the pillars, statues and sculptures have been wantonly smashed to pieces. Local tradition relates that the Brahmin teacher Sankaracharya came to Nagarjuna Konda with a host of followers and destroyed the Buddhist monuments. The cultivated lands on which the ruined buildings stand was a religious grant made to Sankaracharya. In Kerala, Sankaracharya and his Hindu fanatic close associate Kumarila Bhatta, an avowed enemy of Buddhism, organized a religious crusade against the Buddhists. We get a vivid description of the pleasure of Sankaracharaya on seeing the people of non-Brahmanic faith being burnt to death from the book Sankara Digvijaya (World Victory).
According to the Charyapada (First Bangla Book)and Sankara’s Digvijaya book havoc played in Kerala, Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar and all South Asia. Kumarila Bhatta instigated king Suddvannan of Ujjaini to exterminate the Buddhists. From the Mirchakatika of Sudraka we learnt that King’s brother-in-law in Ujjain persecuted the Buddhist monks and nuns. They were treated as bullocks by passing a string through their noses and yoking them to carts. The keralopathi documents refer to the extermination of Buddhism from Kerala by Kumarila Bhatta.
In 1906 Pandit Haraprasad Sastri discovered the first Bangla book the “Charyapada” from the Royal Library of Nepal and he declared that Bangla language was started from the Buddhist thoughts. Dr. Mohammad Shahidullaha and Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee discovered that Brahmanism was started to destroy Buddhism. Hindu politics pays respect to the Buddha as the “Vishnu’s 9th Avatar.” Hindu rulers did not convert to Buddhism but they convert the Buddha as the Hindu god and the sinister conspiracy was started to destroy Buddhists in India. Hindu and Brahmin politics could not tolerate at all as the separate Buddhist existence in India.
There are hundred of places in Keral, Bangladesh, Bihar, West Bengla and Uttar Pradesh having the names like Buddha vihar, (Dharma Thakur), palli (or Buddha Vihar in Kerala) either affixed or suffixed with them. In Kerala karungapalli, Karthikapalli, Pallickal, Pallipuram are some of the examples of these places. The term palli means a Budhist Vihara in Kerala. It should be noted that Kerala had 1, 200 years Buddhist tradition. Till recently schools in Kerala had been called as Ezhuthupalli or Pallikoodam. Our Christian and Muslim brothers use the term Palli to donate their place of worship in Kerala. The Buddhist Temples or Palli were wantonly smashed by the Hindu Nazis under the leadership of Sankaracharya and Kumarila Bhatta. They exterminated 1, 200 Buddhist tradition and transformed Kerala into a Brahmanical State. Original inhabitants of Kerala like the Ezhavas, Pulayas etc. were crushed under the yoke of cateism. Many Buddhist Temples or Viharas transformed into Hindu temples and the majority of the people were prevented from entering the temples under the pretext of tragedy of caste system. A number of the Buddha statues have been found at places like Ambalapuzha, karungaoalli, Pallickal, Bharanikkavu, Mavelikkara and Neelamperur. They are all in disfigured state.
A large number of Buddhist temples were usurped by the Fanatic Brahmins and were converted into Hindu temples where the poor Hindus and Untouchables, Srisailam of Karnataka and many others as they were originally the Buddhist temples. Anti-Brahmanism is particularly discussed in the context of the Human Enlightenment of the Buddha and Racial Harmony. Lord Buddha’s enlightenment and his Noble Community are a movement that opposes the Vedic Tragedy of Caste system. We pray to Lord Buddha for peace in the world as the great poet Rabindranath Tagore writes, “Buddha, my Lord, my Master, they birthplace, is truly here where cruel is the world of men, for thy mercy is to fill the blank of their utter failure, to help them who have lost their faith and betrayed their trust; to forget themselves in thee an thus forget their malignant were given no entrance. The Buddhist places were projected as the Hindu temples by writing puranas which were concocted myths or pseudo-history. Badrinath, Mathura, Ayodhya, Srinegeri, Buddhagaya, Saranath, Delhi, Nalanda, Gudiallam, Nagarjuna konda, Srisailam and Sabarimala (Lord Ayyappa) in Kerala are some of the striking examples of the Brahmanic usurpation of the Buddhist centres. At Nagarjunakonda, the Adi Sankara (8th century) of Kerala played a demon’s role in destroying the Buddhist statues and monuments. Longhurst who conducted excavations of Nagarjuna Konda has recorded this in his book Memoirs of Archaelogical Survey of India No. 54, The Buddhist Antiquites of Nagarjuna Konda (Delhi, 1938, page 6).
In this way, Hindu scholars including Swami Vivekananda discovered that the temples of Lord Jagannath of Puri, Vithula of Pandharpur, Ayyappa of Keraladay. The Master Lord Buddha to whose inspiration he owed his greatness needs to be invoked today even more fervently than in his day. The cruel stupidity of wicked racial discrimination and caste and color bars, parading as religion, has stained the earth with blood and deep hatred more than mutual violence, outrages humanity at every step. Today, in this hapless land poisoned by fratricidal malice, we yearn for a word from him who had proclaimed love and compassion for all creatures as the path to salvation.”
Gautam Buddha is not the enemy of Hindu society and now Hindu politicians use the Buddha as the Hindus’ trade mark. India emphasizes her mother India abiding Lord Buddha’s teaching and Great Emperor Asoka’s Buddhist heritage. The wheel in the centre of the Indian national flag is the wheel of the Law of the Buddha’s Teaching – the Dharma, and the state emblem of India is an adaptation of the famous Lion Capital was erected by the Great Emperor Asoka at Saranath, where the Buddha –Enlightened One first delivered his teaching of compassion and wisdom to the world.
Buddhism invites anyone to come and see for himself and permits him to accept only those facts which agree with reason, logic and truth. It encourages the seeker of a new way to discard heresies, blind faith, miracles and magic. So scientist Einstein expressed this appreciation of Buddhism, “The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experiences of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.”
It is well documented in several books that Buddhism was never and is not a part of Hinduism. Because of its uniqueness and noble teachings Buddhism spread almost all over the world, especially in the South and South-East Asian countries where the peoples still regard “South Asia” as the ‘Land of Buddha’ who had unfolded to them a new path, a new direction for a better life. In fact from the 5th century BC to the 8th century AD India had passed through a golden period of history in all spheres of human activities in ethics, art, architecture, sculpture, trade and commerce, interactions with the peoples of different countries.
Can Hindus compare the Buddha with other leader of India? Puri’s Jagannath Temple belongs to Buddhists. When the Indian Government tested nuclear bombs then the government broadcasted “The Buddha laughs.” Please do not loss your temper in showing your spirit of brotherhood in human rights system. In Buddhagaya even now there is a Shiva Linga hole which is worshipped by Hindu priests every day on the original floor stone just in front of the statue of Lord Buddha main hall of the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar. As the Daily Telegraph of Kolkata dated May 9, 2009 reported that Indian Buddhist community wanted freedom in Buddhagaya. You are ignorant relating to freedom of Buddhists in India. Hindu politicians kidnapped Buddhism and they boast it sings the glory of Hindu politicians and scholars who scarcely reveal an awareness of the delicate difficulty in understanding the faith of other men. Hindu scholars write the Allah Upanisad during the reign of Emperor Akbar- the great. Have you read it? Try your best to read again and again in the Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru “How did Brahmanism absorb Buddhism? Have you found Human Rights in the Bhagavad Gita (in the chapter 18) and slokas: 41, 42, 43 and 44. You are a stupid by your ego and delusion. Please find more from “Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas by Romila Thapar.”
United Nations marks the International Buddha Purnima in Bangkok, Thailand. World Buddhists New year’s Buddha Jayanti of Buddhist Era 2553 in the Asian Heritage Month May – begins with the Buddha’s blessings and tribute of Vaishaki – Buddha Purnima in Asia. Over 2553 years through out the world history, Buddhism was started with boundless tolerance and compassion. The very identity of independent Bangladesh the Charyapada (An Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs), emphasize mother Bangladesh abiding Bangla language and its democratic heritage. Buddha Purnima holds most glorious significance for the millions of Buddhists who – comprise half of the world’s total population.
Buddha Purnima commemorates three great events: The Birth, Supreme Enlightenment and the Great Passing Away of Gautama – the Buddha. On this day all Buddhists are expected to reaffirm their faith in the Buddha Dharma and to lead a noble religious life. It is a day for meditation, and radiating loving kindness. In thousands of temples across the world from Tokyo in the East to San Francisco in the west, Buddhists will pay homage to an Indian Prince who renounced the pleasures of a royal household to bring peace and happiness to mankind. The Buddha or the Supremely Enlightened One was born in 623 B.C. on a Boisakhi Full –Moon day. The young Prince was named Siddhartha or “the one who has brought about all good.” The parents, King Sudhodana and Queen Devi Mahamayaa, ruled a Sakya kingdom called Kapilavastu in Nepal.
Finally, on the 35th Anniversary of his (Prince Siddhartha) birth, again on the full moon day of Vesak, and seated under the Bodhi tree in Buddha Gaya the ascetic prince (in Nepal) Siddhartha became the Buddha, the Fully Enlightened One. For the next forty five years the Buddha traveled around Northern India preaching his message of universal loving kindness for all beings and the realization of the nature of existence with the Four Noble Truths (1. sufferings of life 2, causes of sufferings : Desires 3. Removal of sufferings is Nirvana), 4.The Noble Eightfold Path. Scientist Albert Einstein great genius of the 20th century found that among religious only Buddhism emphasizes the importance of the scientific outlook in dealing with the problems of morality and religions. This threat has been leveled against religious conceptions of man and the universe from the time of Galileo, Bruno and Copernicus (17th century) who instrumental in altering erroneous motions of the universe. However, in a world of darkness and distress, the Buddha Dharma still shines across the gulf of twenty five centuries and it is not yet too late for us to follow its guiding beams and emerge triumphant into a brighter and happier future. At no time in history has the message of the Buddha been more relevant than it is now to present day society of the 21st century.
Psychology & Philosophy relating to Right understanding of life, 2. Right Thought, 3.Right Speech, 4.Right Action, 5.Right Livlihood, 6.Right Effort 7.Right Mindfulness & 8.Right Concentration. The Principles of Buddhism concern the Four Noble Truths, the first being that existence of full of sufferings or unsatisfactoriness. The second Boble is that all suffering has a cause. The third noble is that suffering can be made to come an end and the fourth noble Truth that there is a way to end suffering – the Noble Eightfold Path.
According to Buddhism Karma (intentional action) is not predestination imposed on us by any mysterious creator to which we must helplessly submit ourselves. The karma or deed may be mental, oral or physical. Its nature judged by the accompanying volition. The Buddha teaches, “Every living being has karma as its master, its inheritance, its congenital cause, its kinsman, its refuge. It is karma that differentiates all beings into low and high states.
Nirvana, the ideal requires constant spiritual exercise and mind-development. The Buddha imbued the robber Angulimala’s mind with metta (universal love) and the robber was converted into a spiritual wayfarer. In this effect, even in the Nuclear Age Buddhists the world over owe a duty to cooperate and coordinate their efforts in spreading the principles of Buddhism which has love peace, human rights, happiness, and right understanding for all mankind. The Buddha teaches, “A good ruler is delighted in righteousness, a good person is endowed with wisdom, a good friend does not betray his friends and happiness is achieved by not doing evil.”
In the violent world through all dangers and difficulties not a single drop of blood was shed in the name of Buddhism. Human beings are walking with the Dharma light of the Buddha as His followers (monks and Nuns) and pilgrims in the Buddhist Pilgrimages at home (India) and abroad. Spiritual enlightenment develops in our human minds and consciousness systems by practicing universal love with donation, right meditation and insight wisdom. India’s Buddhism invites anyone to come and see for himself and permits him to accept only those facts which agree with reason, logic, and truth.
Buddhism encourages the seeker of a new way to discard heresies, blind faith, miracles and magic. Principles of Buddhism invite criticism and testing. Buddhism is therefore, the most appealing and most compelling factor that leads the modern minds in the East and West. The Buddha then points out that to hold any kind of fixed view about the past or the future is to be trapped in a net like fish. Suffering lies in clinging to views.
Guru Nanak’s birth day is the government holiday in West Bengal government’s calendar. Mr. L. K Advani, former minister of Home Affairs, Government of India, a statement wherein him self had mentioned that Buddhism is nothing but an integral part of Hinduism and Buddha’s teachings were derived from the holy Gita which was, in fact, compiled much later than the advent of Buddhism. Such type of Brahman conspiracy statement has wounded not only the Buddhists of India, but also those of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia, Burma, (Myanmar), Combodia, Laos, Singapore, Bhutan, Nepal, Mongolia and all over the world where Buddhism is still a living faith. Indian Buddhists have already received from those countries many complaints regarding this statement which has tarnished the image of India there.
The writer is the former librarian, Assistant Editor of the W. F. B. REVIEW, Meditation Advisor and Representative of the World Fellowship of Buddhists to the United Nations
http://mingkok.buddhistdoor.com/en/news/d/2619
More References:
4. Kantowsky, D. 2003. Buddhists in India Today: Descriptions, Pictures and Documents. Delhi: Manohar Publications: 156.
5. Goyal, S.R. 1987. A History of Indian Buddhism. Meerut: 394.
6. Beal, S. 1884. Si-Yu Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World. London: Trubner & Co., reprint ed., Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation.
During the rule of the Kushanas and the Guptas (325-497 AD), both Buddhists and adherents of Brahmanism received royal patronage. However, the royal patronage had shifted from Buddhist to Hindu religious institutions from the beginning of the sixth century A.D. Buddhism began to suffer a decline as Brahmanism veered off into Vaishnavism and Saivism. This was followed by some regional kingdoms subsequently developing into the major sites of power.1,2,3,5
Shashanka, the Shaivite Brahmin king of Bengal was manipulated by the Brahmins to become a ferocious oppressor of the Buddhists. The single original source for all subsequent narratives about Shashanka’s ruinous conduct towards Buddhists was documented by Ven. Hsuan Tsang during his visit to India in early part of the seventh century A.D.
But the exact reasons for his hostile attitude towards Buddhism were not known. It was believed that the Brahminical revivalists had goaded the Hindu kings like him to persecute and even slaughter innocent Buddhists.7 It was reported that Shashanka had destroyed the Bodhi tree of Bodh Gaya and ordered the mass destruction of all Buddhist images and monasteries in his kingdom. This biased and sectarian policy of Shashanka had broken the backbone of Buddhism in India.1,2,3,5,6
Shashanka had also murdered the last Buddhist emperor Rajyavardhana, elder brother of Harshavardhana, in 605 AD. He had marched on to Bodh Gaya and destroyed the Bodhi tree under which the Buddha had attained enlightenment. He forcibly removed the Buddha’s image from the Bodhi Vihara near the tree and installed one of Shiva in its place. Shashanka is alleged to have slaughtered all the Buddhist monks in the area around Kushinagar.1,2,3,7
After the rule of Shashanka, the Pala kingdom was established in Bengal. Though the Palas of Bengal had been hospitable to Vaishnavism and Saivism, but nonetheless they were major supporters of Buddhism. However, when Bengal came under the rule of the Senas (1097-1223), Saivism was promulgated and Buddhism was neglected. 1,2,3 Another hostile Shaivite king like Shashanka was Mihirakula who had completely destroyed over 1500 Buddhist shrines. His hostile action was followed by the Shaivite, Toramana who had destroyed the Ghositarama Buddhist monastery at Kausambi.7
Conclusions
The despotism of Shashanka and his hostile behavior towards the Buddhists was carried forward by the revival of Hinduism that led to the further decline of Buddhism in India. Many scholars often relate this Vedic revival as a tyrannical faith that caused massive destruction of the Buddhist monasteries.
But this matter is however, far more complicated than this. A recent study of the Bengal Puranas proved that the Buddhists were mocked and projected as mischievous and malicious in Brahminical narratives as well as subjected to immense rhetorical violence. This rhetorical violence should be interpreted as both physical and mental violence perpetrated upon the Buddhists. The extermination of Buddhism in India was hastened by the large-scale destruction of Buddhist shrines by the Brahmins. The Maha Bodhi Vihara at Bodh Gaya was forcibly converted into a Shaivite temple.
A contrary view to the thesis of the article is present here by Mattia Salvini
prasajya@gmail.com Submitted on 2013/02/06 at 3:29 am
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I don’t think the information given is completely reliable; in fact, it may be the case that Shankara’s brand of Vedanta has been popular only from the recent past (it owes more to Swami Vivekananda and Indian nationalism than to any philosophical reasons).
Masterpieces of Buddhist philosophy have been composed in India even centuries after Shankara. It seems he was not very successful as a philosopher in his time, since he barely figures in texts about Siddhaanta until much later. The Vedaanta authors quoted by even a late writer like Advayavajra are others – who seem to have been more popular and successful than Shankara.
Nehru’s historical writing is outdated as it relies on a very limited number of sources. And obviously, we cannot use the Shankaradigvijaya so uncritically; not only because it was composed much later than the time of Shankara, but also because we have several alternative accounts that it is unreasonable to discard without reading.
It is sad how a certain specific nationalistic rhetoric has linked India’s past to Shankara and Advaita; even worse is to see how many modern Indian citizens buy into that. Until recently, many different philosophies co-existed in India, and the absence of modern notions of nation-state did not require anyone to come up with this idea of a specific ‘national spirituality’ (=Advaita according to Swami Vivekananda). The close coalescence of nationalism and religion is one of the saddest post-colonial heritages of the sub-continent, which makes any account of India’s religious past become a politically charged landmine. It is as if nobody cares for the actual content of those philosophies and religions – they just wish to assert their social and political identities.
I would like to suggest to the author of this article to consider more carefully Sanskrit philosophical texts (especially Buddhist) composed between the 8th and the 11th century. Anyone reading these texts will be rather surprised to notice how marginal a figure Adi Shankara was, and how marginal his philosophy may have been. Also, you may be surprised to find how many rich and profound Buddhist philosophical texts kept being composed much after Shankara. Basically, he had very limited impact upon the Buddhist world of medieval India (unless we decide to trust the Shankaravijaya texts, the earliest of which was written in the 14th century!).
Buddhist authors did not neglect to refute various forms of Vedanta, but the philosophies they concentrated upon are usually Saamkhya, Nyaaya and Miimaamsaa, which seem to have been much more popular in ancient India. Shankara’s Vedanta is fundamentally an exegetical system (uttaramiimaamsaa) based on the authority of the Veda; the Veda is the only valid means of knowledge (pramaa.na) in order to know the supreme Brahman (please check the Catuhsuutrii if you don’t trust what I just said). It follows that once the authority of the Veda is refuted, the whole system collapses – and Buddhist philosophers have refuted the authority of the Veda time and again.
Let me repeat this; I don’t think Shankara was ever even a threat to Buddhism. Ancient sources do not corroborate this, and offer accounts of his debates with the Buddhist that differ drastically from what we find in later Shankaravijaya texts – which were written 600 years later. The very least that we can say is that we have many divergent account and therefore there is no way to propose such clear-cut historical accounts. Even in recent history, some argue that most of South India was Shaiva Siddhanta rather than Advaita until very recently (basically, until the rise of Indian nationalism). I believe most manuscripts produced in the South up to the 18th century are Shaiva Siddhanta texts rather than Advaita, but you can sure double-check for yourself.
Shankara’s own works suggest that he had very limited concern with Buddhism; he hardly ever refutes the Buddhist systems and when he does so his refutation is rather brief and not rich in arguments – it looks as if he is not even well-familiar with the Buddhist schools he debates with. On the other hand, his main target seem to have been the Puurvamiimaam.saka – probably because they represented a viable and authoritative alternative in the exegesis of the Veda. Most contemporary Indian scholars, unfortunately, miss this point – because they have little or no training in Vaibhaasika, Sautraantika, Yogacara and Madhyamaka. (Of course there are notable exceptions, like my Guruji and others).













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  1. It was Britishers who gave a Wrong date to brith of Gouthama Buddha. Hinduism is the Oldest religion in the world. it is called Sanadhana Dharma math. Brithisers destroyed every evidence that Adi Sankara was Born before Buddha. In fact Buddha took teachings from Ramayana and Mahabharata only.

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    1. Not true at all. How did Sankara referred Buddhism in his texts ?

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    2. What the Hell?Jaichnand is just a Hindu Fanatic

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    3. What is there in Ramayana.... Taking doubt on own wife...and trusting others but not wife..killing by deception... What tell is in Ramayana to take...?

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    5. You are out of your head by boy jaichand and aseem misra

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    6. 😂 😂 😂.... Shankaracharya was before buddha . .Someone give him Nobel award

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    8. Jaichand, pls get your facts right

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    9. U are joke of century to even say buddha borrowed his teaching from ramayana and mahabharata,brother be precise in which part of teaching did borrowed .Great war in between indians because of a women or caste system.B4 any religion Animism were the practosing religion and they too didn't have date cause probably numbers weren't invented then .l strongly suggest u should your aggressive case to zakir naik ,not to buddhist.As people true buddha follower , they dont believe in converting people of other faith.Furthemore to add on Buddha was against the superiority claim of brahminism not hinduism He was there to show truth is equal to all humana discarded the dictatative rules of brahminism caste system.Anyway are u caste fanatic who practise human inequality in the name of religion or a yo are an untouchable in the shankara lineage.

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    10. According to the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Song Yun, Mihirakula "does not believe in any religion", the Brahmins who live in his kingdom and read their sacred texts do not like him, his people were unhappy. Read in details in wilkipedia. Do not mislead people. Mihirkula was a hun and Huns have no religion.

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  2. Saying Adi Sankara used Violent methods to destroy Buddha's teachings were wrong and malicious .

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  3. The persecution of Buddhists by Bengal king Shashanka is exaggerated, firstly those Buddhists were supporters of Harshabardhana who had negative relation with bengal, he fought some wars against Shashanka, and he was sympathetic to Buddhist cause, so it is very possible that Buddhists of Bengal were acting like 5th Column, which Shashanka could not tolerate.

    Secondly the information given of persecution by Shashanka is exaggerated, Hiuen Tsung himself saw many Buddhist monasteries where many Buddhist monks and nuns lived peacefully.

    Adi Shankara did not only engage with Buddhist scholars, he engaged with Kapalika tantrics and Vedic ritualists as well.

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    1. Yes. This article is to deliberately paint Vedic sanatan dharm as bad and propagate artificial differences with budhdhism which was an offshoot of sanatan dharm

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    2. What type of engage terror with fear. Why Bengali old book charayapada found in Nepal in a royal cowshed. Haraprasad sastri also believed that in the time of adi Sankar those Buddhist monk saved himself they were go to Nepal and Tibet. I am Buddhist also and I cant believe adi Sankar. He was a demin

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    3. Adi Sankar and pussamita sunga killed Buddhist monk rape buddhist nun samrat ashok build 94000 buddhist bihara there are many of them adi Sankar destroyed and convert Hindu temple. For example puri temple and burn many buddhist books. I am a Buddhist and I am not believe that Buddhism is a part of Hinduism. That is also a bad propaganda of bastard adi Sankar

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    4. Buddhism is a sect of Hinduism. The fights between Buddhism and Hinduism is nothing but sectorial violence among Hindus. Buddha never started a new religion. Buddhists were Hindus, so was Buddha. Saivas, Saktas, Vaishnavas and Jains and Buddhists all killed each other. All were Hindus.
      By abusing Adi Sankaracharya you dont prove anything. Vedas is much more than Vedanta. I could use abusive words against you also. Your language proves your mentality.

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  4. where are many of 100 buddhist monestry build by ashoke?
    king sasanka destroy bodhi tree in bodh gaya?
    pussanmitra sunga killed many buddhist monk and innocent buddhist people?
    h.g. walls book see

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  5. The write-up can be debunked by the following reasoning :

    1. First writer mentions that Hinduism started in 8th century and then mentions that Harsha was a Hindu and Gupta's were die hard hindus.

    2. The book mentioning Suga killing Buddhist also mentions that Ashoka killed thousands of Jain monks - do u believe in one or both events.

    3. Nehru - he was no historian - so quoting him is pointless.

    4. Gupta Empire who r portrayed as Hindu fanatics and Buddhist persecutors - were the ones who started Nalanda University. Can the writer explain this divergent acts?

    5. Buddha against Caste : Buddha was proud of his own caste. Most of his followers were Brahmins and not low caste. During a dispute on intercaste marriage - Buddha gave explanation in support of caste system and not against it.

    6. Shankra : He debated with Buddhist and won those debates and converted buddhist to Vedantist.

    Rest of the article i could not read - as it is full of half truths.

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    1. Excellent observations sir. These leftists perverts jnu scum can write this crap only

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    2. Excellent observations.. Entire article is half baked truths

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    3. There is little doubt that Bramhins killed Jains & Buddhists. Also Ashoka, though his father & grandfather followed jivika & Jainism slaughtered Jains after Kalinga wars because Jains openly revolted him for causing violence. The Kalinga king was a Jain too.

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    4. "Glimpses of World History" by JL Nehru,was a compilation of letters written to his daughter, Indira Gandhi. It was not a book of history. A father can always attempt to let his children know about what he feels about history. Therefore, that book should always be considered as a personal opinion of Nehru and it is not a history book.

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    5. Buddha was not in favour of castism...he even renounced a low caste barber....and later kshatriyas so they pay respect to low caste barber as he was renounced first

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    6. lmao your Budhha himself was a casteist, you haven't read records, have you? He favoured only the Brahmins, Kshatriyas and upper Vaishyas.

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  7. Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha was a Hindu. Siddhārtha is a Sanskrit word (Hindus language) meaning one who has accomplished a goal.Buddha is the 9th avatar of Vishnu.

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    1. Rubbish. Buddha launched religious revelt against the Brahminical tyranny. He exposed the hollowness of Vedas.

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    2. 1.Buddha,did not announce any new religion. He was only restating with a new emphasis the ancient ideals of the Indo-Aryan civilisation
      2.Buddha never launched revolt against Brahmins.
      3. Dr. Ambedkar said Muslim invasion was the cause of fall of Buddhism, not only in India, but also all over the world and not by "Brahminical tyranny"

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    3. He was neither restating any ancient ideals of Indo-Aryan civilisation nor did he launch any Brahminical revolt . ##He exposed the hollowness of Vedas## But so did Upanishadic authors, even before him & you will see that the latter were more scathing in their attack than Buddha ; often comparing Vedic pundits to dogs

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    4. Buddy you need to understand vedas and upanishads properly before even commenting on it . The vast knowledge present in vedas will not be understood by you ,leave . And the aagamas n upanishads gave born to new sect buddhism, where ambedkar converted to . So get your facts right before commenting .

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    5. There is nothing vast in Vedas....there are hollow...most monk were brahmins in buddhas sangha....

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    6. If Buddha was avatar... Have you Hindus ever celebrated Buddha Jayanti....stop saying nonsense.... Buddha can never be avatar.... First see what your avatar did...they are cowards deceptive treacherous what else..... And Buddha very much different... He cannot be avatar

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    8. yes we celebrate buddha purnima every year without fail

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  8. Birth and destiny are two different things. No Hindu is superior to a Bddhist and vice-versa. Just what do you gain by instigating violence?

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  9. where an what are the arguments of buddha trashing vedas and upanishads and the mahavakyas ?

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  10. I repeat my quaestion, where and what are the logical argumentsopf buddha or his ism trashing vedic and upanishadic postulates of relation between matter and spirit, ishwarawada, ? What is new in buddha ism that is not there in vedic philosophy? Idid not want deletion but advise by any fanatic buddhist





    genuine queries are NOT to be deleted without answering.that is as bad as burning of viharas I repeat "where and what are the arguments of buddha-ism trashing vedas and upanishads and the mahavakyas, the nirguna and saguna brahman and iswaravada ?

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  11. I think this may be only speculation, but it may be true, since there are more theories about the disappearance of Buddhism in India. The more I read these theories the more I get confused.

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    1. If u wanna know abt true history on how Buddhism got declined u ve to read even Chinese n Tibetan historians too coz in tis country all history r distorted coz Tey don't wanna get to know truth....

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  12. A great post especially the one written by the Buddhist.it debunk Hinduism as a peaceful religion. I concur totally withthe author of the uncivilized nature of brahmanism.I had read a book on Buddhism in Gandhara which was one of the best places for buddhism and where it survived till just before the rise of islam and it was utterly clear from that Book , thoroughly scholarly annotated that hinduism is a great destructive force and added very little to human civilization.It is Buddhism that brought light of learning and awakening to Asia. India is still as uncivilized,even today. One has to meet indians and real asians to observe this.

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    1. How dare you to speak like this. Turn the pages of History, you will see what was the fate of Hindus when the Mughals invaded India. And you have written that Buddhism was in Gandhara, then what happened to Gandhara Buddhists when Islam came ??? Is there a single Buddhist in Gandhara or modern day Afghanisthan. Refresh your knowledge in History, then write.

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    2. You people manipulated history.... You know Jagannath temple...go and see the eight spoke Dhamma wheel at the top...it is Buddhist wheel....and one more go and see ancient temples ....you will notice brand new shivling or any other statue but temple will ancient.... Why it is so think...you will get answers

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  13. How can you imagine that Adi Sankara ordered to kill Buddhists ? Do you know that Lord Buddha is worshiped as the 9th Incarnation of Lord Bishnu ? Stop this. Stop this.

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    1. Deception only....Buddha was never any avatar...Hindus destroy our temples converted our temples to Hindu temple....you have nothing many thing borrowed from Buddhism

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    2. Buddha was avatar as you say...have you ever celebrated Buddha Jayanti...everyone knows what your avatar did...all used deception to win..

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    3. Budhdha was not SC and follower of BRA

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  14. We can Try to get answers from studying the real ,scientific history ,based on archeological evidences, rather than as an indoctrinated person

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    1. But you will have to dig every sqmm of our earth and also use forensic science on every gram of the dug up stuff to do that. Even then there I'll be lies. It is better to take history as a mixture of facts and lies and proceed with life s procezWs

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  15. Great article, It is wonderful blog I really learn some special things. I appreciate you for this article.
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  16. It is incorrect to assume that Shankara drove out buddhism . He only proved the insufficiency of buddhistic postulates about the relationship betwen matter and spirit in comparison with the vedic equivalents

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    1. By being silence or unengaging in a debate doesnt mean buddhism been proved insufficient ,by debating vocally and thinking one have won or by self claiming his superiority over others in a conversation doesn't mean one have upper hand. Unliberated mind one might feel a victor in his conditioned mind but not liberated in sense of truth .Adi shankara needed his spirit or so call self soul to be in a dead king's body to know what is sex with a wife of another in any
      way doesn't advocate moraility.

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  17. The caste system is a race system, these brahmins can lie if they want, dna studies have proven that Brahmins have 72% R1a1 M17 blood, this gene is from the Kurgan area of Central Asia and is related to the Khazarian blood the same people who say they're Israelites in Israel, the Brahmin and some other upper caste are khazars and hinduism is a subjugation religion, the brahmins never paid tax to invaders and accepted any invader who would collaborate with them against the Indian dravidian population. Gene studies and history is proving this, the RSS are Indo Aryan people.

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  18. In the agni purana it is said that who follows buddhas teachings will go to hell! And buddhists were identified with the demonds, many scholars believe that it was done to slander Buddhists because tgeir reputation was growing day by day and brahminism was falling down! Hindus purport to respect Buddha but do not follow his teachings as according to them it leads to the door of hell! Worshipping Buddha won't help you Hindu morons, teaching is important not idol!

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  19. Great Article. I liked it very much and based in fact.

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    1. It is based on wrong facts and history has been maligned with great art .

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    2. It's true. I agree. Hindus Must accept this. And bapu raut has mentioned jainism only in beginning why not continued . And most of temples converted into hindu temples were jain temples Not buddhist temple. U can still find the idols in temple or hidden into ground.

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  20. As long as social media are open to a mere ID of any fool of the world, every poor fellow can write what he likes to and many similar people like it. Quoting personal communications of an unworthy fellow like Jawaharlal itself shows the bankruptcy of evidence for the arguments. Affected propagation like this may contaminate an unstable mind, dangerous to the society it is though, but it leaves no impression on a learned mind. Ambedkar's reported observations too are not free from vice. A pure hero-worshipping of a person who fought against it all through his life itself is a big joke nowadays!

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  21. I plead once again to have a clarification as to what are the arguments of Buddha trashing Shankara"s postulates of atma, ishwara etc. What is new in Buddhism that was not there in the bharateeya philosophy. These doubts hv not been clarified.did Buddha really study & uderstand, do manana, nididhyaasana of the philosophies. are the four principles and eight practices any thing new and not extant in his time.one needs clear justification to say thAt Buddhism is the whole ultimate truth. Physical suppression of any religious postulate can not be used to justify the postulate

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    1. None have replied my queries on buddha's understanding g of otherwise on vedas. With due respect to his enlightenment story, I must say that he did not do mañana and nididhyaasanaimproves on veda Vedanta and hence roamed around and to him it occured as to why take mental strain let us not have any desire , let us do good etc let us not hurt etc and he came down to certain primary school level principles which are easy to say and impress . But the deeper relationship. Between entities of nature and the whole were never an area of inquiry. If we truly flow his eight principles then we will all be roaming and living g I. Tents.peacefully, no creative endeavour, no s ience, no desires and what is more no work and all idling, that is easy karmas

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  22. Baseless and brainless article.
    Your first line of this article says "Jainism was in full swing in India prior to Hinduism". Are you kidding? or drunk while writing this article. what about the dating of ramayana and mahabharata?. Read history books before writing articles like this. If historians look at this, they will spit on your grave for sure.

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    1. Ramayana came much later...not known the date also

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    2. Jainism was in full swing in India prior to Hinduism, that's 100% true and proved by historians, scholars and archaeologists on the basis of available proofs (inscriptions, scripts, idols etc).

      Ramayana and Mahabharata are myths as per historians and archaeologists. Although, Jainism also mentions Rama and Krishna as Shalaka Purushas in Padam Purana and Harivamsh Purana, which were hijacked later by Brahmins and they wrote stories in their favor.

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  23. Just for letting you know respected gentleman/ lady, .....The thing is Jain Ramayana and Mahabharata also exists.....for them it's a real story too n of real people...the piousness of the characters is what makes Jain Ramayana n Mahabharata rather than magical and superhero phenomenons....otherwise quite similar,yet many differences like the characters are Jain, also Sita is revered probably a tad more than Rama, Ravana is not despised,( Infact no character is - n goodness of each is revealed with the negative qualities- even of Ramji) ! Then Anjana Devi character appreciated probably even more than Hanumanji, also no-one has monkey faces- all normal human beings, etc etc many differences.....

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    1. What was the " ism" of the jain Ramayana and jain Mahabharata characters was it the Jainism of the theerthankaras or something else

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    2. Yes. There is Ramayan and mahabharat in jainism. But don't know how hindus manipulated the truth in the epics. Actually they are against the jainism concept of non violence and there is no Creator of universe.

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  24. There is no fanaticism in Hinduism as every hindu is seeking truth one way or other and infact all the religious postulates before, now and hereafter are ALL part of the mosaic, the rainbow. The Paths of Hinduism .

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    1. there were battles between shaivites and vaishnavaites. Obviously they were fanatics. Even now many Vaishnavaites scoff at Shaivites and Shiva temples! In AP, Macherla town few hundred years ago witnessed a battle where the poets describe that blood flowed like a river! You have Chennakesava temple and Rudra temple next to each other. Even today Brahmins are careful not to allow other castes freely into their homes! The biggest bane of Hinduism is its caste system.

      2. The oldest Hindu temples are about 12-1400 years old. Buddhist Chaityas and coins do show they are around 2nd BC to 2nd AD, some dated 6 the century AD.

      If one were to construct history from artefacts such as Chaityas, Viharas, and temples one can know. Rest are Puranas or stories written. Fact that this year the Vaishnavaites are commemorating Shri Ramanuja's birth Centenary (1018) shows that Vaishnavism is about a millenium old and Shaivism about 1400 years old!

      3. It was Buddha who seems to have accepted a courtesan, and people irrespective of their birth shows, he was probably the first humanist who devoted his life to universal brotherhood.

      4. Because of his message of 'fraternity' as a guiding principle, and compassion for all living beings, his message transcended boundaries of India and had such a large following. Probably the only religion which spread geographically and lived the longest in human memory!

      5. It is OK to believe that Hinduism doesn't promote fanaticism. But it is important to check the data.

      6. Buddha, a modernist (relevant even today), said don't believe because it is said in books, because some one great or a teacher told you, don't have to believe even him also. He encouraged rational thinking and the need for being conscious and being mindful. He did not want any priestly class as an intermediary. Hat's off to him.

      7. I read many Hindu texts, and lived as Hindu - and in my limited knowledge and experience, I have seen Hindu's discriminate others from lower castes, and I found many contradictions in the various religious texts. I have seen Iyengars scoffing at Iyers, I have seen Vaidiki Brahmins looking down on Niyogi Brahmins etc. I have seen endogamy entrenched. How many marry beyond their caste?
      8. I was born into a devout Hindu family and have been reading various religious texts, especially the Shramanic traditions. And I was impressed with the wisdom, brotherhood and compassion.

      Best Regards

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    2. Very Factual & Bold Answer. Bravo.

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    3. Just loved your reply😘. Just one rectification shaivism is as old as harappiyan culture. One of the oldest god in indian religion.

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  25. Hinduism is where you can persue your path as per your likes and that all paths lead to truth. One need not like something because one dislikes something and that without proper effort to understand

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  26. I may appreciate the Upanashidic thoughts, but Hinduism as experienced and practiced, I have my reservations. What is Hinduism? Which one is true? The one where caste based discrimination or birth based discrimination is supported? If we want Hinduism to progress we need to scrap the caste system. We need promote rational thinking. We do have traditions in India, like Shramanic traditions (Jainism, Buddhism with their Nireeswaravada), agnostic systems like the Sankhya and atheistic traditions of Charvaka. The popular Vedantic system needs to be reformed, only then can it become universal. As long as we use God or any kind to justify discriminating of other human beings, we can never make Hinduism a universal religion. That is the first TRUTH that we need to figure out.

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    1. Hinduism will never be universal....and tell me when one embraced Hinduism...which caste you give them...brahmin or shudras?first solve and then talk of universalism

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    2. If u want caste you can call yourself as any caste or no caste and be hindoo. U can also be an atheist. U can be an Arya samajist etc There are so many options . That's why it is universal. No dogma. No rigidity.absorbs change as new wisdom emerges. As a matter of fact Islam and Christianity are variants of dwaita only. Hinduism is universal as it has no dogma and life is a process of search and striving to improve, not one of my gad is gad not yours attitude of obstinacy Caste in any case is not being followed and over a few generations will disappear.zTo keep on harping that to Sully hinduism is escapism and opportunism .not to have any desire is laziness.

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  27. Thanks for the outstanding advice, it really is useful.
    Buy buddha statues

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  28. This is what happens, when you believe marxists and communists history . The whole of this article proves that, it is intended for political gains and no further motive should be driven . The caste system in buddhism and Shree Aadi shankaracharya's win against buddhism . It was in intellectual ways not through some violent way as this marxist article says, one should understand the whole ideology over here, ALL COMMENTING PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY, IT IS COMMUNIST N MARXIST HISTORY, WHICH THY TRY TO PROPAGATE AND BRING COMMUNAL TENSIONS BETWEEN TWO COMMUNITIES . THIS IS DONE BY THEM FOR POLITICAL TACTICS AND THEIR BENEFITS. ALL THIS ARTICLE ARE FALSE . First of all read about tattvavada, aadi shankaracharya's works and then how "babur" and "khilji" destroyed it .Learn how buddhism propagated in other countries, differences between winning and destroying . Puri jagannath temple is a hoax story and is a tribal god present and worshipped for many years . These communists have one agenda ,break the peace and harmony between people and gain advantage .

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    1. Casteism part of Hindus...lol...Buddhism has nothing to do with caste

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    2. Hindu me kitne caste hai Jake pucho papa se..phir baat karna

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    3. Look around and see how many different plant types are there and then talk of knowledge of hondoos.ln Buddhism are there no variants. Are all Buddhists one. Buddhism is something where you are not supposed to have any desire and just roam around aimlessly. Fine even that is one path in hinduism. Each ism has a postulate and one needs to respect all equally by fighters of equality.

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    4. caste is caste and can be changed.jati is later invention.

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  29. Enjoyed d article.foundbit informative specially in the light of Hindu Muslim conflicts . Shankhnaad n d likes put d entire blame on Muslims but after reading this ,Hindus of that era also don't come clean

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  30. My brahmin friend converted to buddhism...he was Hindu fanatic....studied everything but last embraced buddhism

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    1. In Dhammapada,there is a section titled brahmanavaggo. Hope your friend likes that.

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  31. Bluff....
    Go on barking....

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  32. I guess we need to take history as a mixture of facts and lies. The same article also unfortunately is that. Hindus voracious beef eaters?? Come on!

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  33. It is useless and waste of time to debate on this article because author is totally against Hinduism.
    By the way Hinduism is more about culture less about caste and religion.
    Hinduism has been invaded by many religions time to time on it's own land and it rebounced every time it was tried to be destroyed..so this author should not be given any importance at all.
    By the way Hinduism respects every religion, tolerance is in its roots so request to leave him and his arguments to his own

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  34. How gloriously beautiful is the Sanatama Dharma, especially to read and meditate on the Upanishads, Mahabharat, and commentary in the advaita Vedanta tradition. For me the Buddhist sutras and insight meditation also have been very helpful, clearly building upon aspects of the Vendanta.

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    1. You and I have much in common,then. I am a Vedantist with a healthy respect for the Buddha and his teachings.

      Barring a few details (Brahman versus Shunyata, for example) Advaita Vedanta and Mahayana Buddhism have so much in common that it is surprising that Hindus and Buddhists should argue

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  35. Firstible, Buddha is Vishnu, he restored Sanatana Dharma, Buddhism is a corrupt relgion focused dogma and something Buddha said not to do. He was an advaitist and an enlightened being. Buddha tried restoring Sanatana Dharma, it was misunderstood by many due to the ages we are in, and now Buddhism has completely twisted its meaning. The closest teachings to Buddha's is advaita, non dualism, avadhoot gita...etc. There is a lot of political bullshit around this, when we should really be focusing on moksha.

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  36. It looks something between 2nd century BC to 6th century Ad resulted in the erosion of Buddhism in India. It needs to be digged out. the deeds of Sankara were part of later phase it seems.

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  37. history continuously being remodeled to suit the interests of those who rule

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  38. The " antics" of Shankara, that is. His thoughts, postulate. Words and deeds encouraged humans to think , do research and seek truth while seeing unity in every one and thing and generally drove human mind and intellect to action By the same logic " the antics" the enlightened siddartha drove humans to run around shunning all desires and lead a life of nothingness and static inactivity. Those of us who consider shankaras work as antics should sit somewhere doing nothing and become nothing

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  39. In Buddhism qnd Jainims there are many Hindu gods worshipped, Hindu concepts present...now Hindus can start a campaign that those were Hindu temples once upon a time and later on became their temple. Vedic gods like Indra, yama Lakshmi are worshipped.

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  40. n Buddhism and Jainims there are many Hindu gods worshipped, Hindu concepts present...now Hindus can start a campaign that they were Hindu temples once upon a time and later on became their temple. Vedic gods like Indra, yama, Lakshmi are present in Buddhist and jainism stories. Now what do you do? There is anti argument for arguments like this. People of all times were smart enough to accept which religion they found have helped them spiritually. if you want to increase popularity or population of buddism or jainims in India or abroad start a campaign to teach their scriptures through media. If people really like it or if it clears their doubt's they will convert from their religion to your favorite religion. You know prabhupad of Iskcon. He just went to america and explained the philosophy of bhagavad gita and now there are lakhs of non Hindus converted to Hinduism all around the world. The reason is it cleared the doubts they had after reading their scriptures. Nobody is there to stop anyone from converting from Hindu religions.

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  41. Bodh Gaya is the single greatest journey for all orders of Buddhists all through the world. It is presently one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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  42. Most importantly Buddha was not an Ambedkarite.And the downfall of Buddhist ideals in India is coz people lack the mental strength of denying God.

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  43. Secondly, your Ambedkarism aka the IT Cell of Islam has nothing to do with Buddha.

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  45. What type of engage terror with fear. Why Bengali old book charayapada found in Nepal in a royal cowshed. Haraprasad sastri also believed that in the time of adi Sankar those Buddhist monk saved himself they were go to Nepal and Tibet. I am Buddhist also and I cant believe adi Sankar. He was a demin

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  46. Thank you sir, your research is truly honest which will help present andand fut generations to understand true history of this Devine land where a greater human Buddha (the altimate one) was bone.

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  48. If you want to see a replay of how the Brahmins annihilated Buddhists and made Buddha an avatar of Vishnu, see how the Brahminical politics cry for a 'Congress -Mukth Bharat' after appropriating a Congress leader ( Vallabhai Patel)and erecting his statue.

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    1. This is cheap interpretation of alofty thing. Mr Buddha himself has praised brahminisn in brahmana vaggo. Now to the brahmanishta person ,divinity exists in various degrees in every thing. When the goodness of that quality is higher deification and registration in the pantheon as avatar is a logical and natural corollary Buddhism was never annihilated as the BrahmaNa sees ekam sat vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Shankara the sanyaasi pointed out that Buddha o servations like right thinking, tight acting , right everything was good at primary level of life true pprogress in the karmic cycle reqiited continuous seeking of the relationship between matter and spirit for which Buddha's postulates did not have enlightened answers to the relation between matter and spirit . The karma cycle and shunyata cannot exist without an adhyaksha force..and do on ..

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  50. Why have u not elaborated on Jainism? The fact is what was Jain was mistook as Buddhist by these ignorant researchers or writers. Jainism faced cruelty from the Shaivites & Vaishnavites. They were converted forcefully or faced impalement, which was torturous death. All Jain works, temples etc were taken over by them. During Adi Shankara's period maximum conversions of people & temples happened. Anyone in doubt can verify it through unbiased experts.

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  51. Buddhism is flourishing as the Baddha Vacana the words of Buddha is the best solution for happiness of all religions. Today even ordinary Upasakas and Upasikas have started building Viharas, shrines, Chetias, Pagodas etc., as its helps to Meditate for attaining Eternal Bliss as Final Goal.
    The Bevakoof Jhoothe Psychopaths (BJP) led by Murderer of democratic institutions & Master of diluting institutions (Modi) after gobbling the Master Key by tampering the fraud EVMs have emboldened their remotely controlling just 0.1% intolerant, violent, militant, number one terrorists of the world, ever shooting, mob lynching, lunatic, mentally retarded Foreigners from Bene Israeli chitpavan brahmins of RSS (Rowdy Rakshasa Swayam Sevaks)full of hatred, anger, jealousy,delusion, stupidity which are defilement of the mind requiring mental treatment in mental asylums in Bene Israel are the ones who are actually destroying Hinduism, since most of the Epics are created by SC/STs. They wanted to destroy Universal Adult Franchise guaranteed in the Marvelous Modern Constitution.But the 99.9% All Awakened Aboriginals Societies will not allow that to happen.Through Ballot Papers their evil design will be destroyed. That is the Law of Cause and Condition.

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  53. Hinduism and vedas destroy buddhism logically.Buddha was a demon guru.paticasamutpada makes no sence .


    annata vs a solid essence/energy that creates awareness.anatta says that conscious experience comes about from 5 material skandas,births,experiences,dies and then come into being from literally nowehere.
    nirvana in all buddhism is extinction of self and awareness of any form.its annihilation. with hinduism its merging with yourself and bliss,consciousness,joy and compassionate love.moksha is true existance.soul is forever.this is opposed to each other.
    samsara-in hinduism samsara is a joyful sexual act between siva and sakti like a childs play.its theatre for will has a ( buddhism samsara=dukkha or suffering.

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  54. [tanha . buddhism tanha and its extinction lead to liberation
    in hindu dharma,tanha leads to moksa.
    sunyata.nothing relatively can be said to truly exist.its all relativity hindu dharma,everything is 100% real and true.Maya is the Godess energy behind experiences.its not a illusive mirage like in dzogchen for example.
    Nekkhamma-in buddhism nekkhama is neccasery for moksha.that is denouncing all desires and pleasure.in Shaivism and shaktism,sensual pleasure is the way to Godess/god and is God/Godess(kameswara and kameshwari Devi)and should be indulged.
    prajnaparamita-there is nothing(Forms) beyond the 5 skandhas.guan yin found this and attained nibbana.in hinduism we are essential and 100% real. sakti and shiv are inseperable.energy and consciousness are 100% solid..
    Celibacy.in buddha dharma celibacy is neccasery for nirvana in all schools but the tibetans.in hindu tantra,maithuna is what brings moksha.maithuna is sex.
    women-in theravada and mahayana a woman must be repulsed by her femininity to achieve moksha or realizations or go to a pureland.a woman can not attain moksha.she must first be reborn as a man.tibetans are the only exception.wich is based on saivism.women have inferior intellects in the pali corpus and mahayna sutra texts.the teachings of siddharta last only half a milennia due to women being admitted into the samgha.
    in hinduism women are spiritually superior to men.spiritual intellect is feminine,as formlessness is female.there are tons of yoginis and female tantriks.Godess is supreme being in the vedas- Deviatharvasirsha and devi sukta.http://www.aghori.it/devi_atharvashirsha.htm .intuition is female.though tbh,siddharta did say women should have authority hove men in marriage.
    Vegetarianism-in buddha dharma,its best to be a vegan.however in hindu dharma meat is sattvic food stengthens basal cakra.though living things are aghasta and shouldnt be killed,you can still eat it.same in theravada for bhikkus.but mahayana and tibetans say vegeterianism is mandated.
    hypostasis.in buddha dharma,there are INFINITE souls and they are multiple hypostasises and they are independant in origin.in hinduism except dwaita vishnu dharma,there is one person only that multiplies itself due to its will and freedom.you,me and every being are the same person,substance monism isnt what we believe,but we believe in total unity.one conscious existant .
    eternity-in buddhism samsara has no end.in hindu dharma everyone will get moksa due to Grace of Godess and God .
    in pop culture,common ideas and even among hindu and buddhist laymen there is a notion that buddhism and hinduism teach the same thing.the textual reception was agains this,for example in mahayana shiva dharma is for foolish persons and is the dharma of ''kali yuga''the age of dharma extinction.in hindu puranas,Buddhism is the religion of kali yuga and was created by brihispati in the form of sukracarya the demon Guru who created islam.the demons were the first to spread buddha dharma.they tosnured their heads went to the forest,spoke against the Veda truth ,and wandered naked like dimgabaras.Im not saying these are true,but it shows that both our religions recognized each other as fundementally in oppositon.
    even our priesthood are opposed in dress.our tantriks wear long beards and long hair matted.they smoke opium(shivas favoprite food) and cannabis and liquor is holy in vedas,a way to experience Divinity.buddhism forbids all of this.

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  55. I have seen blog posts saying this.for example:Contrary to popular belief, Hinduism is not the precursor to all of the Dharmic religions. At the time that Jainism and Buddhism were developing, there was no Hindu religion; there was its precursor known as Brahmanism. Brahmanism included the caste system and its primary practice was animal sacrifices. It was not until the Yoga sutras and the Bhagavad-Gita that it evolved into the Hinduism we have of today and both the Yoga sutras and Bhagavad-Gita were composed well after the flourishing of Jainism and Buddhism. The famous term Nirvana (Pali: Nibbana) was not a Hindu term until the Bhagavada Gita and other later Hindu works, which were composed after the Buddhist Tipitaka. Scholars agree that it was first a Jain and Buddhist term long before Hinduism incorporated it (Fowler, 2012). The Yoga Sutras also came after the Tipitaka and the 8 limbed description found there is no doubt influenced from the Buddhist 8 fold path. Additionally, the Hindu importance put on ahimsa (nonviolence) also came later after Jainism and Buddhism were well established religions on the subcontinent. Therefore, it can be argued that Hinduism actually borrowed many of its ideas from Jainism and Buddhism, not the other way around.

    this is false upon its head.totaly false.the vedas teach a atman and identify it with sri Rudra,and the energy perthe vedas wich creates him is none other than Godess(see devi suktam and http://www.aghori.it/devi_atharvashirsha_eng.htm atharvasirsha .

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  56. durga sukta also teaches one Godess as highest
    it teaches rebirth.it teaches moksha,one of the famous mantras in the vedas is mahamritunjay wich asks rudra to bestow moksha and amrita(eternal immortality).

    “yo rudro agnau yo apsu ya oshhadhishhu
    Yo rudro vishva bhuvanaaavivesha tasmai rudraya namo astu (Yajurveda 5:5:9:i )
    “The Rudra in the fire, in the waters, in the plants, the Rudra that hath entered all beings, to that Rudra be homage”

    Taittiriya Aranyaka states Sadashiva as the overlord of Hiranyagarbha and the preserver of Vedas (as Dakshinamurty), who is the Ishwara the lord of all created beings and Ishana the supreme seer.

    “iishaanaH sarvavidyaanaamiishvaraH sarvabhuutaanaaM
    brahmaadhipatirbrahmaNo.adhipatirbrahmaa shivo me astu sadaashivom.h ” (Taittiriya Aranyaka 10.21.1)
    “May the Supreme who is Ishana the ruler of all knowledge, who is Ishwara, the controller of all created beings, the preserver of the Vedas and the one overlord of Hiranyagarbha, be benign to me. That Sadasiva described thus and denoted by Pranava (OM).” “umaapataye pashupataye namo namaH |” (Taittiriya Aranyaka 10.22.1)
    “Salutations to the overlord of all created beings and who is the lord of Uma”. omaḥ pavate janitā matīnāṃ janitā divo janitā pṛthivyāḥ
    janitāghnerjanitā sūryasya janitendrasya janitota viṣṇoḥ ” (Rig Veda.IX.96.5)
    “Father of sacred chants, Soma (Shiva) flows onwards, the Father of the Earth, Father of the Celestial region: Father of Agni, the creator of Surya, the Father who gave birth to Indra and Vishnu“ namo midhushhtamaya ” (Yajurveda iv:5:5:g)
    “Salutations to Lord Rudra in the form of hiranyagarbHA; the creator of the universe” “namo bhavaya cha rudraya cha |
    namah sharvaya cha pashupataye cha ||” (Yajurveda iv:5:a-b)
    “Salutations to Bhava, who is the source of all things (Srusthi), and to Rudra, who is the destroyer of all ills. Salutations to Sharva, the destroyer of everything (Laya), and to Pashupati, the protector of all beings in bondage (Sthiti)”. “iishaanaH sarvavidyaanaamiishvaraH sarvabhuutaanaaM |” (Taittiriya Aranyaka 10.21.1)

    “May the Supreme who is Ishana the ruler of all knowledge, who is Ishwara, the controller/indweller of all created beings.”Lord Shiva himself says:-


    “paramo.asmi paraatparaH” (Maitreya Upa. 3:10)

    “I am the supreme, greater than the great”.

    in the vedas all tripeds,bipeds and animals are aghastya-not to be killed.killing a cow results in being shit with a lead bullet.the vedas never promoted animal sacrifice.what happens,is that a old diseased beast would be put in the sacred fires,vedic incantation would be recited by priests,and the animal would come out young and healthy and with great beauty.this was to show the potency of the mantras.and truth of the vedic 'brahmanaical 'religion.by buddha's time,the brahmins lost the proper way of recitation and the mantras didnt work,but they continued putting them in the fire.




    प्लवाः rafts हि indeed एते are these अदृढाः frail यज्ञरूपाः sacrifices अष्टादशोक्तम् with eighteen members अवरं lowly येषु in which कर्म ritual एतत् this श्रेयः highest good ये those अभिनन्दन्ति gleeful मूढाः fools जरामृत्युं old age and death ते they पुनः again एव surely अपि यन्ति also attain.


    But frail indeed are those rafts of sacrifices, conducted by eighteen persons, upon whom rests the inferior work; therefore they are destructible. Fools who rejoice in them as the Highest Good fall victims again and again to old age and death.

    karma is in pre-buddhist upanisad


    hinduism had all its core beliefs before buddha

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  57. the first thing advaita vedantists should criticize is paticasamutpada/pratityasamutpada,the idea that there was no beggining to material universe and that there is an infinite regress of phenemona.this is very easy to refute.


    the second thing christians should debate,is samsara.their idea is that samsara is dukkha(misery)and nothing but dukkha(suffering ) ,however this is easy to refute.if this were so we wouldnt have happiness or pleasures.Life is a joyful childish play.our purpose is to find diety.our purpose is to love.life is not suffering.

    anaatman-no self.Buddhists believe there is no empirical spirit ,soul or self.this is easy to refute.they believe consciusness comes about thru 5 elements.but if this were so why cant we repilcate that ?if the skandhas created consciousness how come we have verdicial NDE?out of body astral projecting ?the buddfhist response here is laughable,they say these are mind created bodies.oke.

    awareness cannot come about thru material elements.thats silly.thats what materialism say.wich buddhism is definately!

    prajnaparamita-in mahayani dharma,this means there is nothing beyond the 5 dyadic elements.again this is easy to debunk.

    shunyata-this is the idea that l;iterally nothing actually exist.in madhyamaka,this takes on extreme form.but this is irrefutabley dumb.put your hand in boiling scolidng water and believe u dont truly exist .oke

    celibacy-buddhists believe you cant attain moksha unless you are celibate.this is dumb.sex is used for procreation an unity.for mutual love.God didnt create evil in this.


    Vegeterianism-all three yanas say vegeterianism mis mandatory,except for monks in sravaka dharmas.but vegetrianism is unhealthy.meat is sattvic food.,it strengthens the primal bonds in the body and saturated fat is neccasery for brain fucntion and the fact we dont eat enouhg is why our brains shrunk and were dumber than paleo hnter gatherer populaces.its also necassery for fertility.and BODY MASS.Vitmin K is good for bones etc

    meat also has all the minerals and vitamins.God made animals for us to eat!


    women-jainism and buddha dharmas say women are inferior to men and that his teaching wont last a millenia because of women being admitted in his samgha.but in abrahamic religions beside islam there are WOMAN prophets and mary was infallible.this is just false.both these faiths say a woman cant become liberated.excdpt vajrayana,wich is based on shaiva tantra and is a exception.


    Buddha also denied God.this is easy to debunk using william lain craig's arguments.God is rational but patityasamutpada is incompatible therewith.


    Im a Godess devotee and make it my life goal to correct buddhists.Adi shankara defeated buddhism with good arguments in bharat and theism flourished again,now buddhism wich was the religion of all lower class in india is extinct practically.


    Nekkhama also is a life hating philosophy.the bible says be joyous unto the lord.it also says many times in psalms that joy is a command.in judaism its a mitvah to be joyous.yet in buddhism its evil!


    namaste guys


    I rather have china,japan etc be christian then buddhist atleast chrsitian have theist ethics and a life affirming worldview mostly .

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  58. Pl do not spread blatant lies about Hindu Dharma based on the superfluous research of this so called historians or mischief monger intellectuals who are hungry for PhD degrees . Where they brought this theory, only they know. If the names of their 9 past generations will be asked, they can't say precisely but submit PhD thesis on the subject which dates back 2000 years or more. Please stop this shop of spreading lies. And you too do not know about Buddha or Dharma. We Hindus recite Dasavatara Sloka of Lord Vishnu, andasi we say Kesaba dhruta Buddha sari range, jai Jagadisha Hare. So can a Hindu think of what you have written. Now these days it is a pity that people sitting in ac rooms comment on the matters of Dharma, every where in the world and the consequence is violence. I am a Hindu but if I will see a person like Lord Buddha, I will wash His feet with my hearts blood. This is the love and respect that Hindus give to Lord Buddha. Please stop this.

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  61. With Marxist historian like romila thapar nd other they can prove anything. But when you ask them proof they will change there statement from time to time nd same goes to ram mandir too.

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