How come there are so few Buddhists in India when that was where the religion originated from?

interesting

They were systematically annihilated by the Muslim invaders, which was successful because Buddhism is very centralized. Once you slaughter all the monks and burn down the temples there's really no one left in the laymen population to carry it on. Contrast that with Hinduism which survived Islamic persecution because its a far less centralized faith with holy men who are often rural wanderers, also much of Southern India was barely touched by Islamic invasions and so never had any persecution at all.

Also, India's national symbol is also a Buddhist symbol

The Ashoka Chakra

*Hellenic Buddhist art.

Personally I don't think that Buddhism is shit at all, but I do see it as being not as good as Samkhya.

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mashallah based

The Maurya developed thier own art style derived from the Greco-Buddhists.

It became the foundation of all Asian arts

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That's not the Ashoka chakra, this is. This is in the middle of our flag. Also, Ashoka was a hindu who converted to Buddhism after the Kalinga War.

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Hindus also played a major role in annihilating buddhism

Yeah I guess so. Nalanda was not only destroyed by muslims but Hindu kings too.

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Nice building.

You need glasses my Bharatani fren

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Yeah well it's there but the whole thing isn't Ashoka chakra.

I know what a Chakra is. I'm fucking Asian

R8 Japanese depiction of Ashoka

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Can't see shit. Post a better pic.

Genuinely would have preferred a violent Buddhist India if it weren’t for Adi Shankaracharya’s Brahmin autism and the timely invasion of Babur. The only solace is the South stayed Buddhist and Jain for a while longer before they were assimilated by the Hindus again

Please tell me what this is from so I can search on nhentai or boots you will be reincarnated as an emperor in the 16th century with riches and bitches next life I will pray for you

whyyyy

can you give me the context of what this means?

Ashoka went full Buddhist bringer of Dharma and spread Buddhism to the Far East, far west, to the Norf. People claim he was a “peaceful” king having dropped his Kshatriya Vedic heritage for a Dharmic one but he was just as violent. He ordered for forceful conversions of Brahmins and the smaller Hindu kingdoms under his rule. At this time, the South was flourishing under the “Samgam” era of Jains and Buddhists.

However, the Brahmins of the land were not happy that Vedic Dharma was on the fall and scattered to find a solution. In came Shankaracharya to resurrect Hinduism(compiling all of Vedic and non Vedic practices as Vaita, Advaita) long after Ashoka was succeeded by incompetent rulers. Many of Hindu traditions and cultures today have Buddhist influences. What followed was Hindu kings slaughtering Buddhists and retaking Buddhist lands, which destabilised the norf, just in time for the first round of invasions by the turks

In addition, the South already had trade routes with the Romans and (Ptolemaic) Egyptians when Ashoka decided to send his emissaries to the west. Most of his people went through the seas from the southern Tamil Kingdoms. So, both the Maurya Empire and the Tamil Kings traded and were on “good” terms with one another.

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thanks

the expanse and particlars of indian historian are so complex

Buddhism outside the subcontinent isn't real Buddhism.
It's filled with hindu and pagan elements it picked along the way.
By the way, how many of them REALLY want Nirvana?
Seems to me they're looking for Sukhavati or Buddhaloka which is more or less, heaven.
It doesn't have the overarching goal of ending dukkha by not existing.

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Were Afghans Buddhist when Islam took over? I thought they were Zoroastrian

Its really interesting learning about Indian history. It's such a rare topic here and I wonder why there isn't that much effort to introduce people to it, then I realize the current state of Indian and I can see why anyone would not want anything to do with the country.

Such a shame, but one more year for you guys to be a superpower and maybe more people will be interested.

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>Seems to me they're looking for Sukhavati or Buddhaloka which is more or less, heaven.
is this not good enough?

They were both. Afghanis never had a long lasting empire, be it Hindu or Buddhist or Islamic. They are much like India but just over smaller area with too many different people.

Muslims exterminated Buddhism in India
It was far more centralized and thus vulnerable to annihilation after the destruction of its temples, its monks and its literature

Opposite case in SEA where hindu God Kings were usurped by buddhists

That's not what Gautama preached.
He didn't want to be reborn.

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Good.

I can't speak for the north but south wasn't Buddhist to begin with

Southerners were Shivates and they didn't like other faiths
Which is why even ashoka sent missionaries throughout india the cheran , cholan and pandiyan kingdoms denied them entry
Though later Cholas would allow them to pass through to srilanka and continue to preach there
Buddhists along with jains liked outside the Cities in south
For example outside modern day madurai you can find a remanent of a jain-buddhist settlement in kalughu malai

Then there is the famous Nayanmars vs Buddhists incident

Nayanmars are Shivate saints
And madurai was plagued by famine and drought

So the king summoned all his advisors including religious heads
the king tried every possible solutions offered by jains and Buddhists nothing worked but Nayanmars found a solution by which ACTUALLY worked so the king banished Buddhists and jains FOREVER to live outside his city

>Nayanmars found a solution
what was the solution?

Ashoka-chan :3

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WHAT GAME

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Kill all Jews for manipulating the weather

Diverting Vaigai river
They LITERALLY built a dam and manually diverted the river

thank jebus!

I bet the Jains and Buddhist thayolis wanted the actors to protest for water instead from Karnataka

Buddhists and jains were treated like LITERAL jews in the south though

The entire policy of non-violence didn't go well with southerners

Also have y'all eaten jain food ?
No wonder they wanted to kill them all

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fhl3tZprKY

Remember our boy Thiruvalluvar was a Jain. Sangam era literature was majority Jain. But I agree, Jains are literal onion boys

Not really.

In Southeast Asia had syncretism. In Cambodia they slowly moved away from Hinduism to Buddhism by the 14th century. Myanmar and Siamese kingdoms were never Hindu.

In Malay archipelago syncretism was hardcore. What killed it was Islam

Are you going to post the name of the game I can’t find it it’s in moonrunes

>Thiruvalluvar was a jain
Oy vey
We Wuz Jains and shiiiet

Everyone except Muslims claim him as one of their own
Including christians , Buddhists and Jains

It's all historic revisionism

Nvm Chaos TCG arigato

A lot of Israeli pressure also. They don’t like Christian Palestinians any more than Muslim Palestinians.

Mylapore iyer user spotted
>christians
Otha Yesuve!!

Looks like eiyuu senki.

I just searched アショーカ on Google images and many cardgames showed up lol

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I sincerely HATE jains
They are actual waste of oxygen

>Can't harm any living meaning including pests like mosquitoes
>Can't eat good food
>They don't eat Onions , cauliflower , garlic , cinnamon and fuck ton of other good food
>LITERAL INDIAN JEW

Most jains are money lending merchants and pawn brokers

>Muh compassion and kind ness M-E-M-E
>Can't fight and completely irrelevant

Are you gonna beat them up. They can't fight back lol

Braaaaaaaise da laaaaaaaawd Yeeeeeesu Christu

Amit Shah is a Jain Baniya that larps as a Vaishnav

Christians are pan-Arabist except for most Lebanese

Nope , don't have to
They are already going extinct thanks to muslims

In a few year's jainism will be extinct from this world

Seriously though jain population is rapidly declining

Tfw Buddhists got killed by Confucians and Hindus

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lol

The folk religion in india (and even most theravada buddhist countries) is still hinduism and in mahayana countries other religions such as confucianism/taoism, bon, shinto, tengri etc fill that rolr. Buddhism doesnt traditionally have ceremonies for marriage, laws for ruling states etc.

In india a lot of philosophers put wffort into refutibg buddhism so that it wouldnt be a significant philosophy

Indian power rankings:
Sikhs
(power gap)
Christians & Muslims
(power gap)
Jains and Buddhist
(3x power gap)
Your run of the mill poo

ok jasminder

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Hello sukhdeep singh

Seethe more poominder. Never forget how we destroyed your pathetic fucking temple the last time you chimped out for khalistan.

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You subhumans would be wiped off the map by the Muslims if not for the Sikhs. Show some respect piss drinkers

kys abrahamic abomination

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>John 4:44 New International Version (NIV)
(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

This meme isnt true though.
Story goes Guru Tegh Bahdur helped out some Kashmiri Pandits. How this gets extrapolated to all hindus is beyond me.

Jesus wasn't accepted in his hometown. Israelis still reject Jesus.

>You subhumans would be wiped off the map by the Muslims if not for the Sikhs
lol nice meme. Sikhs are one of the biggest cucks in india.

>Hindu kings btfo Buddhist power in north India,
lol where did you get that from one of the reason is Buddhism is wide spread is due to Hindu empire more notably the maurya empire

Are you aware of the Assyrians? They/we were all but independent 200 years ago and they are not 'pan-Arabist'. They also exist in Syria and the Levant. They, along with Yazidis, were targeted by I.S.I.S. for not being pan-Arabist or Arab.

t.poonjabi

>Muh Skeeehs saved india
Imagine believing this then again sikhs and poonjabis aren't known for their intelligence

After Ranjit Singh's death in 1839, the empire was severely weakened by internal divisions and political mismanagement. This opportunity was used by the British East India Company to launch the Anglo-Sikh Wars.
I think Maratha did most of the work while you were squabbling among yourself

Based Poonjabi Singh making northies mad

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I actually like what the Gurus taught and would hope that more hindus (and actual sikhs) paid attention to it so negative practices could be reformed
>no caste/gender discrimination
>self defense
>no superstitions

However i find the sikhs hating on hindus weird. You have a book full of praises to raam, gopaal, paramatma etc. Im not saying you are hindus, im saying this was intended to draw Hindus into your faith. But now Sikhs take an ethnic identity which basically shuts out others of joining or at least learning from your faith.

Where can I find cute Jazz gf in Delhi? I want to visit Delhi after my conquests in Bengal? Can I buy a drug addicted singh’s daughter for a bag of coke like in Made in Heaven?

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Pure Buddhism seems to be a really nihilistic practice and Philosophy, more than a Religion. It honestly seems rather clear in what to do with next to no magical mumbo Jumbo.

You fell for the memes. Buddhism is meaningful and the whole “dude nothing matters lmao” thing is sold to westerners like nihilism to give them solace. This is the difference, even in abstract poverty, people tend to find a meaning in life which isn’t the case for some twenty something middle class white person who is raised to believe Poverty is sadness and torture and meaningless.

>tfw no qt Jaspreet gf to leave my brown sweaty hairy ball stains on

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You misunderstood buddhism.
It isnt that nothing matters. Its that nothing truly exists but things exist in convention and things therefore matter in convention rather than ultimately

Example:
The symbol 2 doesnt inherently mean two
However throughout my life i will always draw for 2 when i mean two

buddhism is like a religion of counter-hindu in that it pursues liberation from everything including what constitute the dogma of hinduism like reincarnation and karma and by extension the class system based on it. it wouldn't fit well in a hindu country.

This is bs
Buddhism does well in thailand, burma and cambodia even though folk religion and state religion in these countries is traditionally hindu
Even the sinhalese pray to hindu gods as well as buddha.

Buddhism is not a religion for the masses. Whether stuck or not in india depends on its monks

interesting thread, related question: how widespread was Buddhism in India at its peak?, did it ever have the chance of becoming the majority religion?

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Its not about being a majority religion since it ismt a folk religion and even in buddhist countries buddhism isnt the folk religion

Its about its monks being patronised by kingsm

It spread all the way to Greece, Russia and to the Far East. It was the majority religion for a while.

I didnt mean this in an emo way, leading a good life as an ascet because stuff you want etc isnt that important and you want to go to nothingness seems a bit bleak in comparison to abrahamic afterlive or even Hindu rebirths.
The goal being nothingness is the wierd stuff, I dont deny that it can also lead to Focus on important Things.

At one time 80% of India was ruled by a Buddhist king but he didn't do anything to spread his religion. He just went to a cave and meditated.

Hindus want the same thing which is release from rebirth. Lay buddhists/hindus want a rebirth that will lead to the end of the cycle so they can live like degenerates now. Both think that everything is baseless illusion and to be extinguished

But the goal is to reach ultimate reality (either emptiness if buddhist or gof/fullness if hindu). By realising everything is empty (buddha) or full of god(hindu)

Buddhism isnt a lay religion. It is mostly aimed at monks

>didn't do anything to spread his religion.
Building monestary, Institutes that only focus on teaching Buddhism doesn't account for spreading.
>He just went to a cave and meditated.
No, Even when he converted to Bhuddism he didn't stop ruling is kingdom and defend any invasion on his land.

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Thanks for explaining, both sounds like the death of self though. But I guess a Lot of Christian Variants also see as being connected to god as The goal which seems like the Hindu Version.