Hindus built resistance agaist Islamic invasions at social and regional levels but Buddhists couldn't. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh were all Buddhist majority regions which are now Islamic countries. 🙏
truth why budhismis dyin, christian missionaries are targetin them . its gettin preserved in china is bcs of martial arts it gained from hindu and china has marketed it as proud thing in world.
As a longtime Buddhist I can say without prejudice that Hinduism predated Buddhism. The Buddha himself was from a Hindu family. He didn't "invent" Meditation. He may have developed his own additional techniques but meditation was already in Hinduism long before him. So Buddhism was more of an "offshoot" if we're to correctly categorize it. Just as Protestantism is an offshoot of Catholicism. If you take Hinduism and "simplify" it -- take away deity propitiation and just focus on meditation -- what you end up with is Buddhism. So there's Buddhism "in" Hinduism. Therefore Buddhism didn't decay in India. All Hindus practice Buddhism within Hinduism.
Didn’t the mughals termed people living south of indus as hindus? How is it a religion? Spirituality was there before buddhism, yes, but the term hindu didn’t exist before the mughals. You can simply google that.
@hellboundtruck123 "Hindus" don't use that term. They are practitioners of Sanatana Dharma, which can be interpreted as "eternal order." It's not a single religion, but rather a set of spiritual paths. Some paths are dualistic and devotional while others are nondualistic and more philosophical.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m also a Buddhist who was born in a Hindu family. I was once sharing my lamentation with a great Thai meditation master I learned under that it’s a shame there isn’t much Buddhism in India. He told me as long as there are good people like you in India Buddhism is well and alive. It was one of my most touching and impactful moments of my life.
@@Paramasaugata Because Bhakti Marg is also a part of Advaita vedanta. There are no compulsion! But understanding core philosophy of advaita will helps you a lot in bhakti Marg!
Advaita vedanta sure is better philosophy than Buddhism, If you take Buddhism in wrong way it would lead to nihilism! In advaita, God alone is, everything else is not!
I am a Buddhist scholar from South East Asia. I have studied Hindu philosophies as well. Like revered Rinpoche said, "Hindu-ism", "Buddh-ism" are just invented and imposed names by Westerners. First and foremost to understand why Buddhism never took great hold in India we must acknowledge the fact that in India Baudha-Dharma is just another branch of philosophy in "Hindu" thought (Darshana). There are many darshanas in India that pre-date Buddhism. For example - Samkhya, Yoga, Jaina etc each with its own enlightened sage just like Buddha. Even today, there are spiritual men in India who are followed literally by millions and they have their own philosophies and they may go on to become as impactful as Buddha in a thousand years making themselves very distinct from what we call "mainstream Hinduism" now. So when you have like a dozen competing darshanas that can give you salvation, for Indians to take up Buddha-dharma en-masse made no sense. They could merrily be Krishna and Vishnu followers (Vaishnavas), Shiva followes (Sahivaites), Shakti followers, Advaita followers etc each with its own guru like Buddha, and texts, philosophies in abundance. Also, like revered Rinpoche said, Islamic invasions played a huge part in uprooting whatever Buddhism existed in India too. While the Hindu dharmic traditions through existing social structures were able to organize and resist the imposition of Islam and fight against the destructions, unfortunately the Buddists, Jains, and some other Indian dharmic religions could not stand up to the onslaught.
My name is sugatha. It’s a Buddhist name but I am Hindu. When Buddhism forgot it roots and started abusing sanatana dharma without realising the depth of sanatana dharma its had to leave India. If they were accommodating in their thought they would have still be here in India.
The bhramans who were jealous that Buddhism was thriving started eradicating Buddhism, killing Buddhist monks, some of them ran to other countries to save themselves and started practicing Buddhism there. That's the reason india don't follow Buddhism as much as much as other countries
Buddhism died when Mahayana became dominant. That is why Sri Lankan Buddhism will also disappear. Buddhism is not materialism. Buddhism is strictly spiritualism where suffering and attachments are sacrificed. As a Hindu i know that the Tibetan Buddhists are more of a Buddhist than so called Sri Lankan Buddhists who follow a baseless interpretation of buddhism
Buddhism is future of India, only it has capability to form a casteless society , most Hindu talk a lot about spiritualism, philosophy,dharma,Hindu unity etc but once any of their family members marry outside caste they will forget everything and show the real face
@@AnarchistDoc If Indians were buddhist until 12th century then it could be easy for muslims to convert Indians easily like indonesians ..Hindus kings rebellions saved India and world from islam
@@AnarchistDoc he also said that only bro. Buddhism declined so that India and it's culture prevailed or else india would be changed into muslim nation like Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc..
It's not that Buddhism disappeared, it is simply assimilated in Hinduism. Hinduism doesn't have some fixed principles. It is dynamic and always keep changing with time. India has a tradition of following Enlightened people or Gurus or yogis. When Buddha was born, people were captivated by his teachings, so they spread quickly. In a way Indians were following Buddhist teachings at that time, but that doesn't necessarily means that they were thinking of Buddhism as an exclusive religion. Their children would not exclusively follow these teachings but would also learns new teachings from wandering Gurus or Yogis or Naths etc. Even after Buddha dies, new Gurus came and spread their teachings. We had many famous gurus like Adi Shankaracharya or Nagarjuna. Their disciples would wander around India and spread their teachings. It was a tradition for Indian kings to invite such Gurus or Yogis, listen to their debates and following the practices of Gurus who won the debates. There are widely available records of such debates happening in courts of Indian kingdoms. Even today we have some gurus like Sadhguru etc whom people follow. So in a way Hinduism is dynamic and always changing. Buddhism was just a phase which was popular at that time. People haven't forgotten those teachings. Those are assimilated in Hinduism, while people still kept seeking new ways to approach God and Spirituality. I mean Hinduism have Vedic Philosoply, Buddhism, Vedanta, Puranic, Shavism, Vaishanvism, Stories of gods spread by devoted poets like Tulsidas spreading Ramayana or spread of Bhagvad Gita, teachings of Krishna. In each era, we had Gurus which gave their teachings about how to approach God and Spirituality and they kept assimilating in Hinduism. Although, I would like to say that current so-called Gurus can't really be compared to old Gurus. Old gurus used to abstain from material attachment, living in hut, wearing minimal clothes, eating minimal food. They also used to meditate in secluded forests or mountains. And in such a way, they used to found new teachings. Nowadays Gurus just package old teachings in a complicated way and present it as their teachings. They enjoy all things that can be bought from money and are increasingly more political. So in a way, I think this new age of Social media is really bad for traditional ways of Hinduism. Rather than following Gurus, now it is better to read the already compiled teaching in Hinduism. In a way, we should close the lore of Hinduism and should not allow any further addition.
Actually, Buddhists have no contribution to India's freedom movement economy science and technology army etc And, Dr Ambedkar rejected original Mahayana Theravada Buddhism and created his own nabayana Buddhists which is full of hatred. Nabayana Buddhists don't know anything about Buddhism but they speak always against Hindus. But, I have never seen any Tibetan Buddhist or Mahayanas saying bad anything to us. Nabayanas are the reason that many Hindus don't like Buddhists.
@@AnarchistDoc Whatt? Why not ask Dalai Lama himself, if Hindus or India is intolerant of Buddhism? Or maybe ask China why they killed 84000 Buddhist monks in one go when they were only chanting their scriptures in a monastery. Go and check how Buddhist philosophy of Nirvana and eightfold path is taught parallel to Patanjali's ashtangyog. The debate between Mandan Mishr (Buddhist) and Shankaracharya was the turning point when Mishr himself was convinced that Hindu philosophy is more inclusive. I am surprised by the word intolerance.
@@AnarchistDoc hey joker, Ancient India was not like Abhramic religions, if it had any differences those are resolved through scholarly debates. Buddhism is part of Dharma that is part of ancient teachings, jokers like you corrupted by Abhramic religions think like that.
budhist worship hindu gods. vishnu and inira. see whole indonesia ,tibet ,hongkong . u hv no knowledge of this . kung fu original names are based on indira and garuda names.but andh ambaedkrites misuse budhism for spreading hinduphobia and seperating budhism as another religion@@Shubham-f1y
@@bensmith4749 i mean the roots of Dharma, Moksha, Reincarnation and Karma are the same in both. There are bound to be slight differences in all the indic religions. However the roots are same
I salute you for being vegan, we can do it we have to spread veganism in India and stop people from drinking and eating milk and its products we also have to tell people that Krishna never liked maakan.
Afghanistan was a fully Buddhist country. It fell to islamist. Then Pakistan part of india. Then Bangladesh part of india. But bhudhism survives in hills It many north states. South states also. Srilanka has bhudhism. East india has bhudhism. Only Delhi is not india. All indias follow bhudha. All. All indians go to monasteries. All indians worship budha. We dont consider him separate. He was a hindu prince. His name was Siddhartha. So many hindu children are called Siddhartha.
@@induchopra3014 Very true. Dharmic traditions don't have This vs. That concept. All ways lead to God. Islam and Christianity is politically motivated.
As i santani or so called hindu. I always believe so called jainism, so called buddhism, so called sikhism and so called hinduism are one for me. I have everything inside me. They are not religions. They are teachings.
Lol, Hinduism name is not sanataan. Tell me in which hindu religion books it's written your religion name is sanataan?? All Hindus have been doing to this day just steal Buddhist content and heritages.
Core reason is struggle between Hindus and Buddhist. Buddhism having being pan India religion posses enormous power politically which anyone would want to have it. Hindu Brahmin managed to convince kings likes Pushyamitra Sungha who would then go on massacre Buddhist scholars. At the same time Hindu Brahmins would twisted the Buddhist content with mixture of God, wars , violence and other mysticism, which is done mostly by twisting Buddhist Jatak katha and Jains similar folkare. In fact Ramayan is actually Buddhist jatak story earliest version of it predates to 1st century whereas Hindu ramayan written by valmiki can only be traced after 7th century. Destruction of Buddhist universities was another major blow to it's decline. Hindu Brahmins then occupy all the Buddhist Temples so much so Even the sanctuary sanctum of Buddhism the Bod gaya, Mahabodhi temple is controlled by Hindus Brahmins To this date. Hindu Brahmin would then go on to convert Hindu festival like Bijay Dashami, Dipawali, Chaat Puja into Hindu festival with special attribution to their fictional God. Hindus scripture are filled with verse like "All athiest and Buddha followers should be punished like a Theif". In short reason Buddhism decayed in India is simply part of survival of fittest which was slow and systematic process done by Hindus. But truth will prevail. Buddhism is once again being revived in India, with all historical events and heritages associated with it.
1st of all there are no ATHIESTS in Sanatan , we have 6 schools of thoughts one of which doesnt believe in god But, then too we all are equal. And how can Ramayn be younger than Buddha when Buddha himself was born in Lineage of shri Ram . Dont spread this false propoganda here. Many Bhuddhists were helping the outsiders/ invaders thatswhy pushyamitra shung has to take charge in his hands and defend the nation.
The core reasons for the decline are destruction of Nalanda and Adi Shankaracharya reviving Hinduism. There were various schools of philosophy at the time, and there are differences in what Hinduism and Buddhism see as the nature of reality. But regardless of which ism we follow, both these eastern philosophical approaches are similar in a lot of ways and ultimately address the cessation of suffering or nirvana. Let us try not to create rifts between the two, whether one is contained within the other or derived from another is not important. Following them diligently and embodying the teachings are important..
Exactly right from my understanding. Adi Shankara in 8th C was key in re-establishing the all encompassing philosophy known as Hinduism by founding cornerstones in the 4 corners of the subcontinent. Not the same as Hindutva ... which is a political party trying to control masses. Fascinating talk nevertheless.
@@zacsamuel7295 This guy doest understand poltical need for organisation or Khistraya dharma is needed for a society to function smoothly its not to control the masses it gives the people the opportunity to shape policy that affects them through casting there vote based on there interests its funny that your not critical of other more dangerous political ideologies like communism,Islamism and Dominism through the world.
@@zacsamuel7295it's wrong to say Hindutva is all about controlling the masses. Do not make a statement like this without knowing the background. Hindutva is an attempt to make the hindus passionate about their religion like the followers of Islam and Christianity. You must do your research to find out how followers of Islam were bullies in India for decades with the tacit support of the Congress govt led by the Nehrus and The Gandhis who were originally muslims. The hindus were made spineless by the Congress party for decades. Hindutva is the only way to counter the huge threat posed by the followers of Islam.
@@zacsamuel7295 Buddhists cannot face the wrath of islamic Invasions with all the peace and kindness! Buddhists were eliminated from Afghanistan and india due to the Islamists! But hindus tried their best to resist them! That's only because of their faith in dharma!
@@THE_SUNNY_ARYAkyunki Magadh ke liye buddh bhagwan hai. I am myself from a village near Bodhgaya and we also worship Buddha as a god despite being Hindu because we are Magadhi .😊
Actually, I don't know if he is aware of or not, but it happened in around late 8th century. So In India we used to practice a system of Shastratha (More like a debate on interpretation of the teachings). Buddhism was on peak after Maurya and Ashoka empire, coz no Hindu priest or guru was able to defeat Bhuddist monks in Shastrath. The rules of these debates were that if you loose in the debate you whole heartedly follow the philosophy of the winner and make him your guru. That's how Buddhism rose in India and everywhere else. Its similar to how in Japan Dojo masters system used to be. If other Dojo defeat the master of another Dojo they used to go under the umbrella of the winning master. This was similar just instead of fight here it was a debate of their philosophies and teachings. So Buddhist defeated many Hindu monks for centuries and became the most practised belief in South Asia. Until, Adi Shankaracharya was born in 788. He obtained Hindu knowledge at a very young age and became a Vedic scholar and his interpretation gave birth to the new form (Interpretation/Darshan) of Vedic philosophies its called Adwait Vedanta. No Buddhist monks were able to defeat him in Shastratha and when defeated they became his disciples. He travelled throughout the region what is now called India and Pakistan and defated all the monks which led to decline of Buddhism in India & Pakistan.
Lol, Core reason is struggle between Hindus and Buddhist. Buddhism having being pan India religion posses enormous power politically which anyone would want to have it. Hindu Brahmin managed to convince kings likes Pushyamitra Sungha who would then go on massacre Buddhist scholars. At the same time Hindu Brahmins would twisted the Buddhist content with mixture of God, wars , violence and other mysticism, which is done mostly by twisting Buddhist Jatak katha and Jains similar folkare. In fact Ramayan is actually Buddhist jatak story earliest version of it predates to 1st century whereas Hindu ramayan written by valmiki can only be traced after 7th century. Destruction of Buddhist universities was another major blow to it's decline. Hindu Brahmins then occupy all the Buddhist Temples so much so Even the sanctuary sanctum of Buddhism the Bod gaya, Mahabodhi temple is controlled by Hindus Brahmins To this date. Hindu Brahmin would then go on to convert Hindu festival like Bijay Dashami, Dipawali, Chaat Puja into Hindu festival with special attribution to their fictional God. Hindus scripture are filled with verse like "All athiest and Buddha followers should be punished like a Theif". In short reason Buddhism decayed in India is simply part of survival of fittest which was slow and systematic process done by Hindus. But truth will prevail. Buddhism is once again being revived in India, with all historical events and heritages associated with it.
Sir, Actually From Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, China, Malaysia, Indonesia etc.., used i be Buddist counntries. Buddism doesn't have any method to stand up against the violent invasions. All the buddist countries that were invaded by Muslims, they very very quickly took them over and converted to islam. It is super easy to kill, kick out Buddist because it has NON-VIOLENCE written all over. Just an example Afganistan taliban govt. demolished a big Budda statue,because in Isalam it is HARAM to have idols. That just shows that Islamic expansion invasions DOES have a lotnof role to play for Buddism not surviving in India.
Well said! All those non violence and love and compassion won't work if you have sword placed on your neck! This is why Hinduism survived! Even though the core teaching of Hinduism is about Oneness! Hindus understood the role of individuals to choose dharma over adharma! Thanks to Kshatriyas who fought for Dharma! These Buddhists can only talk and preach when it comes to real life they gets wiped out by invaders!
@@AdvaiticOneness1 yeah!! Agreed. Ironically enough if you see in our country these Christian and Islamic forces are supporting ambedkar and joining buddhism. Where Dr. Ambedkar said Christians and Islam always work against India. These very support our folks to convert to Buddhism. So after a later time it is easy for them to convert them to these peaceful religions.
@@MedhamshMaringanti The main problem with hindus is that they don't know the core philosophy of Hinduism which is found in Upanishads, vedas etc. All they know is ritualistic aspect of Hinduism. In reality, ritualistic aspec or bhakti Marg is just one part/ one among the many ways to lead a spiritual life in Hinduism. Not knowing the true knowledge of our scriptures lead our young generations to get exposed to other ideologies and conversion mafias! The so called Ambeakarites are bunch of hate groups, they don't know anything about core philosophies of Buddhism nor Hinduism! And what's more sad is that these people joins with Abrahamic religions and bash Hinduism for no reason!
Hinduism was uprooted from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia. What you have to say about this? Wasn't Hindus fault caused this? We lost 4 countries. We also got easily converted by the muslim mleechas.
I appreciate that you mentioned, that initially Hinduism and Buddhism were unnamed .That's just because the concept of dharma ,common to the both, is very different than the abrahamic concept of religions...for sure its an enforced identity....and I would like to add that the above statement also implies that there was no actual line seperating Hinduism and buddhism....the core buddhist principles are 70-80% similar to the samkhya tradition in Hinduism...also the mahayana buddhist practices like tibetian-tantra and diety worship are common to Hinduism too.... So in my opinion there is no actual division between hinduism and buddhism ,and if still people claim it to be so....then there are further more possible divisions that could be made in them....the reality is , all the religions that originated in the indian subcontinent are one under the laws of dharma-karma-moksha....
@@antiabrahamicreligion I agree...but you will find distinction in the concept of self in various sects of Hinduism too....and that's perfectly fine...
Hinduism is like a big sponge. It will absorb any idea with out loosing its shape fully. I remember my son in Christian School brings a small nice picture of baby Christ and Mary. My old mother (80+) saw the picture and put it in our puja room shelf next to that of baby Krishna. That's our Hindu culture.
@@namah4399 Polytheistic societies where divinity can assume multiple forms tend, by their very essence, to be more tolerant than those societies in which the adoption of a physicality for the sacred is censored and it is assured that "There is no God but..."
The biggest misconception is to think that Budhism was a seperate religion. People made it so later, but when it was there it was just another stream of diverse thinking like the other streams. Else nothing can explain Chanakya being a teacher of Chandragupta. In this land, the main culture is pretty strong and was flourishing so it continued. You could actually see many ancient temples with both Budhist and Hindu sculptures. But in other lands like China there was no strong and societal culture so the Budhist stream took over.
@@Sugar-iw2qr Not necessarily. It is similar to Shaiva-Vaishnava, dvaita-advita etc., Even now Budhists, Jain's, Sikhs don't act as if they are a separate religion. Many rituals are common and you will not feel them differently from you.
I am sorry about the monk. He has no good answers , becase buddha never born in india. That is why, buddihism never a main stream religion in india. There were different munis in same buddha era , such as jyna mahaweer etc. Buddha's name in encient texts and inscriptions is mentioned as "gothama". Everything related to this gothama buddha can be found in neighboring country to india. Whole messed up done by british and it has been followed to date. This is now a public secret in Sri lanka. Unfortunately sri lankan government keep mum on this due to hidden political pressure . Buddhist need to come forward to find true buddhist history.
@@LearningLK Your message is confusing. Budha alias sidhartha alias Gautama was very much born in India and got his self-realization in Boudh Gaya. Just like Charvaka stream of thought, which is about atheism, Budhism was another stream. Budhism was relatively popular in India but couldn't become mainstream due to lack of societal framework as rightly said by the monk. Else nothing explains Chanakya being the Guru of Chandra Gupta. There was nothing like a religion that time. Hinduism is diverse unlike the monolithic religions.
As a Hindu we have Buddha Bhagwan's Statue and we do offer him flower and worship like how we do for our gods. I do pray to Buddha everyday and recently got connected to Tara maa. We don't consider Buddha as a Decoration piece kept on Shoe keeping box at the entrance of house. This is how modern people are literally treating a God. Breaks my heart everytime I watch it online
@@antiabrahamicreligion With Hinduism, oneness with Brahman means there is still a subtle duality. You need to go beyond this and that is where Buddhism comes in.
Many Buddhists in Indian subcontinent converted to Islam. About 40% population of Indian subcontinent is Muslim. Muslims have two castes: Ashraf(Upper caste) and Ajlaf(Lower caste). Almost all of the Ajlaf people are converted to Islam from Buddhism.
And people who think meditation was Buddha's invention no don't be oversmart Meditation was and always will be invention from Hinduism Sanatan... Meditation was part of Sanatan way before Buddhism came to it's form...🕉️
This is an interesting take. It may totally have been the case in India, but we can also see how Buddhism has evolved and adapted into a social thing in Thailand, Cambodia, China etc
Core reason is struggle between Hindus and Buddhist. Buddhism having being pan India religion posses enormous power politically which anyone would want to have it. Hindu Brahmin managed to convince kings likes Pushyamitra Sungha who would then go on massacre Buddhist scholars. At the same time Hindu Brahmins would twisted the Buddhist content with mixture of God, wars , violence and other mysticism, which is done mostly by twisting Buddhist Jatak katha and Jains similar folkare. In fact Ramayan is actually Buddhist jatak story earliest version of it predates to 1st century whereas Hindu ramayan written by valmiki can only be traced after 7th century. Destruction of Buddhist universities was another major blow to it's decline. Hindu Brahmins then occupy all the Buddhist Temples so much so Even the sanctuary sanctum of Buddhism the Bod gaya, Mahabodhi temple is controlled by Hindus Brahmins To this date. Hindu Brahmin would then go on to convert Hindu festival like Bijay Dashami, Dipawali, Chaat Puja into Hindu festival with special attribution to their fictional God. Hindus scripture are filled with verse like "All athiest and Buddha followers should be punished like a Theif". In short reason Buddhism decayed in India is simply part of survival of fittest which was slow and systematic process done by Hindus. But truth will prevail. Buddhism is once again being revived in India, with all historical events and heritages associated with it.
National Emblem of India is a representative seal of the Republic of India that is adapted from the 'Lion Capital of Ashoka Pillar'. Ashoka- The Great who was a Buddhist.
Ashoka jab Samrat the tab hindu the , Buddhists bana Samrat gaya. Buddhists are the only community jiski koi contribution nehi bharat ki azadi economy ISRO science and technology army etc me. Raja Ram Chandra ki jay: Indian army
truth why budhismis dyin, christian missionaries are targetin them . its gettin preserved in china is bcs of martial arts it gained from hindu and china has marketed it as proud thing in world.
Gautama the Buddha has already been a part of the Lord's 10 most important avatars. I adore Buddha a lot. Buddhism, Jainism, and even Sikhim are all branches of Sanatan Hindu Dharma. Buddha and Mahavira and Guru Nanak are Bharat's gifts to the world and without Shiva we're nothing. Jay SriRam ☝🏾🌹🚩💥🕉🌺🔥🙏🏽
@@develheartfellow8154rama is very respected in Buddhism, According to dasharatha jataka rama is considered to be the previous life of the Buddha. Rama and Buddha share the same ancestor ikshvaku( solar dynasty) including Mahavira. Don't insult dharma.
This man has understood the most important thing in Indian history. Most Indians and non Indians have not understood this simple truth that Hinduism and Buddhism were not different religions as Abrahmic people understand it.
The Buddha like Guru Nanak is revered as avatars of Vishnu by most in India. The practice of Buddhism fractured into multiple sects much like hinduism. The simple answer is we love all our avatars.
Why would you be so blind to the fact that GuruNanak saheb and Shakyamuni Buddha opposed the 4-caste system of the Vaishnavites. So how can a Divisive avatar take an avatar that opposes his earlier avatar of Lord Krishna. Shaivites were more open to darker skinned folks and till today lots of temples of shiva South india have dark idols of Bholenaath.
@@akashtriz The Buddha didn't really oppose caste system (there was no caste then, more like varna). Varna is nothing but division of labour - why would Buddha oppose varnas? Without varnas, society will collapse
Vishnu avatar simply means the one who is doing the job of preserving Dharma so anyone who is simply preserving Dharma is known as Vishnu Avatar ( The preserver of Dharma ) 🙏🏻
Truth is Yogic science (Meditation and Physical exercise) is the root of Eastern/Dharmic Philosophies (Hinduism, Buddhism Jainism and Sikhism). Abrahamic intervention for more than 1000 and years screwed everything and gave birth to -ism business in india. All of this talks about concepts of Karma, Dhyana, Moksha (Nirvana in Buddhism) and many. I wish one day all this philosophies join together and helps people.
The biggest and most obvious answer to this quesion, which all Tibetans intentionally shy away from and are purposefully blind to, is that in India Buddhism intermixed so much with other "Hinduistic" beliefs, that it became virtually indistinguishable as something separate, of its own. This can be clearly seen today in the case of Vajrayana "Buddhism" where very obviously the vast majority of its practices and teachings have nothing to do with the historical Buddha, but rather have come from so many other Indian spiritual beliefs and traditions that got woven into and incorporated into "Buddhism" over the centuries
Vajrayana at it’s core remains a non-dualistic thought same as the historical buddha, at it’s core is always wisdom and compassion and not a permanent inherent self. Even in vajrayana the process of practice is no-self (dependent origination) unlike neo-hinduism, which is based on a permanent self(soul/aatman) aiming to reach a higher self or primordial self.
Also did you know that the historical buddha himself gave teachings of vajrayana on vulture peak? And moreover there are similarities because a lot of it was plagiarised by shankaracharya, just look at advaita vedanta which came much later. And yes, there are some yogic practices(not all) that were already existing in India during buddha’s time but certainly not enough or efficient to alleviate suffering of sentient beings hence buddha came up with the path.
Only Western new age Buddhists see the similarities. It was hindu who copied from Buddhism and made a new concept of their own. Shunyata was emphasized by the Acharya Nagarjuna and Adi Shankaracharya copied the concept and made it Advaita Vedanta. The downfall of Buddhism in India is Brahmins. In one line.
Buddha and his dhamma written by Dr ambedkar is revolutionary in bring a secular version of Buddhism, not only challenged Hinduism but also contemporary Buddhist beliefs and values….
Challenged to Hinduism 😂 all buddhist are converting into Christian,islam and most of them r also going to bageshvar dham now a days😂😂 Bro people r tierd to become atheist and poor ..some buddhist are now saying that lakshmi is mother of buddha and started praying lakshmi mas for money 😂😂 Buddhism is becoming joke now a days 😂😂
Dhaba saheb read max muller translation of hindu scripture.. He never learned sanskrit.. And wrote nonsense about buddhism and Hinduism... Creating a sect of Buddhism who's core purpose is to hate hindus
Buddhism is not a different religion in India.Buddhism is the part/Sampraday of Greater Sanatan Dharma/Hindu Dharma.Buddhism is a philosophy of India which is inspired by Sankhya,Yoga,Vaisheshik darshan of Vedic Philosophy. Siddharth Gautam Buddha were one more great Rishi/Sant/Gyani/enlighten person of Bharat.Dharma is essance of every Sampraday of Indic religion and philosophy. Dharma above all 🙏🏼🚩
@@StimParavane Than you should understand the Vedic and Vedantic philosophy read upnishad which is the base of all Dharmic ecosystem.If you are comparing spiritualism than I think have not understood what is spiritualism. Buddhism originated from Sankhya Yoga Darshan of Vedantic philosophy which is one of six philosophy of Vedant.🙏🏼
@@RaZziaN1exactly bro every hindu cultural supremacist claims Buddhism as a part of Hinduism they have also dragged Buddha in mythology and imposed as 9th avatar of Vishu.This is shear madness and propaganda.
@@mlg1279 both are indic thoughts. Buddhism is a-spiritual/agnostic while hinduism is theistic but philosophies have intermingled with each other so much.
The main true reason is Islamic Invasion of India. Hinduism allow Violence to Protect Dharma while Buddhism has no focus on violence. Example ? Afghanistan was a buddhist country.
I have a sweet answer to this - Because we Indian Hindus never treated Buddhism separate from Hinduism, but just an another way (sect) to reach to God. So people tried it. When other great scholars of Hinduism like Adi Shankar, Madhavacharya showed new ways, people turned back to those again in Hinduism ✌️
budhist dont have a good chance bcs of many reasons, 1st is many budhist eat meat, its against budhist teachings but they are asian so they cant leave it completely. another is andh ambaedkrites are using budhism as political tool, so normal hindu person gets irritated with these andh ambaedkrites who are spreading hinduphobia. and other major factor is many christian missionaries are mass convverting budhist through cash incentives, these budhist gets lured easily bcs they originally have low belonging of materialstic thing in moral but in this current period the new generations are lured for west citizenship ,abrahamic stamp,and getting a taste of materialistic hunger. new gens dont see being less materialistic as a good sign of survival so they convert for reservations,cash, and christian missionaries knows it.
budh was a kshatriya, he took sanyas for knowledge. but he inherited kshatriya knowledge, martial arts, etc. but indian budhist have no kshtriya gun, tibetans absorbed those teachings and marketed it as their own. but in india, no budhist practice martial art. even indian budhist dont know that martial arts orginal names are made upon indira and garuda names.
Historically speaking,because people just slowly rejected it due its impractical nature,stress on monastic lifestyle and also their collaboration with foreign invaders due to politics.The Kushan empire that came right before the golden age Guptas were Buddhists from Bactria.Also the Hun invasions and the Buddhist reaction to it had a huge impact on the common man.But because both were dharmic religions,there was limited bloodshed between the two,if at all and both the kushans and Gupta respected the others religion during their rule.It continued to thrive in centers of learning like Nalanda and was generally respected and accepted as a nastika philosophy.Buddhism was not destroyed by Hinduism,contrary to what western universities today teach to create a separation between the two.Later Islamic invasions did the rest.
Sanatana Dharma is the Tree. Hinduism is the mirror image of that tree. Jainism, Buddhism & Sikhism are 3 saplings taken out of the same tree and planted next to it.
4:46 I respectfully disagree with the monk. I am an Indian Zen Buddhist from Bodhidharma lineage, and Buddhism has always had social responsibility from the beginning from the time of Buddha. The fact that Buddha went and taught the masses proves he believed in social responsibility. The problem is that many people haven't read the oldest Buddhist scriptures, the Nikayas, where Buddha gave clear instructions on how to create a Buddhist society not just for monks but also for layperson.
@@Visakh_S_Nair Pretty ironic since the Bodhidharma himself was a Hindu kshatriya and vigorously practiced the Varna system. Its the "Shasan" i.e. "self control" that forms the basis of "zazen" , now know as Zen.
@@odomangulati7079 Any civilization, if it wants to sustain and survive and to ultimately grow, it needs a system like Varna". Varna is not discrimination of a humans but instead discrimination of human intelligence and capabilities, Different humans are capable of different things, A brave man cannot be replaced with a coward in a battlefield. Varna was a system that our ancestors used for the proper utilisation of the human work force, but as always it gets corrupted. Bodhidharma chose to become a monk was because of violence among the warriors for the greed for Power".
@@odomangulati7079 Even our great warrior monk parashuram (who is the guru of Indian martial arts, brought kalaripayattu), who slayed corrupt rulers for misuse of power.
@@Visakh_S_Nair To be fair the truth is that Bodhidharma taught 18 Yoga Asana's to the shaolin monks along with Dhyana. There is no actual evidence that he taught them any warfare.
Buddhism didn’t decayed in India it just got assimilated into it Just like Hinduism didn’t decayed in southeastern countries it just got assimilated into Buddhism 🕉️ Initially Buddhism was critical of Vedic karmkands then later Buddhists of ancient India themselves started doing the same and no difference between the two was left
Buddhism declined in the Indian Subcontinent because of Muslim Arab and Turkic invasions. Buddhism flourished in the North-Western and Eastern Indian Subcontinent. The North-Western part was swamped by invading Muslims who imposed Islam in the entire region that today forms Afghanistan, parts of the Balochistan region and the Khyber belt of Pakistan. In the Eastern part, the world-renowned centre of learning- the Nalanda University was burned down by the Muslim Turkic invaders and that just destroyed Buddhism in that area. So, even though Buddhism had been waxing and waning in the Indian Subcontinent even prior to these invasions by Muslims, the Muslim invasion gave it an irrecoverable blow.
"Wherever the Buddha's Teachings have flourished, either in cities or countrysides, people would gain inconceivable benefits . The land and people would be enveloped in peace. The sun and moon would shine clear and bright. Wind and rain would appear accordingly and there would be no disasters. Nations would be prosperous and there would be no use for soldiers or weapons. People would abide by morality and accord with laws . They would be courteous and humble, and everyone would be content without injustices. There would be no thefts or violence. The strong would not dominate the weak and everyone would get their fair share. Namo Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏
Indeed. I just wish India had protected Tibet against the commies. We need to protect Tibet, its identity and the Buddhism there. I am a proud Advaithin and all Sanatanis respect and revere Buddhism.
But you cannot sit next to a mad dog, Abhramic religions would have wiped out Buddhist nations. Though not possible in modern times may be they are now doing it through rapid breeding.
He hasn't answered the question though. 1.The indic religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, are at its core principally the same. I would go to the extent of calling each sect(s) of the other; 'philosophy' is probably a better word than sect / religion in this case though. One can argue which one is which but the concept of Aum (Om) is at their core. 2. Royal patronage - depending on which school of philosophy a certain empire belonged to - that sect received royal patronage. From BC through the first millennium AD, these religions saw crests and troughs in their following based on royal patronage they received. 3. Most importantly - Adi Sankaracharya from modern day Kerala and his philosophy of Advaita ( non duality) ; that everything that exists is 'one' with the universe (Aum), and there is no separate God but oneself, helped re-establish Hinduism. Note that most of North India was Buddhis or Jains at this time, and converted to this advaitic Hinduism circa 8-9 century AD. 4. Bhakti movement: later Bhakti movement established the concept of personal gods and almost annihilated other sects. This movement preached a personal connection with the 'supreme'. Basically saying it doesn't matter what and whom you worship - it's your personal belief system that matters as long as it is within certain ethical / moral boundaries. This struck a chord with the masses. The argument presented in this video that several gods in Hinduism and Karma in Buddhism was a factor in Buddhism not being present in numbers it should otherwise have in India is an extremely lazy one. Several buddhistic sects are polytheistic with several million gods, and more importantly, Hinduism has the concept of Karma as it's core philosophy. Essentially, Buddhism and Hinduism are not very different. The people at that time didn't see anything unique or different that Buddhism could offer. From atheism, monotheism, henotheism to polytheism Hinduism covered a large 'real estate' of belief systems and considered Buddhism to be an extension (sub set) of Hinduism. So, while one can argue that Buddhism doesn't have followers in India; it can also be counter argued that all hindus are also buddhistic, and therefore 80% of India's population.
According to the Kalady ashram, Adi Shankaracharya lived around 1st Century BCE. Also, by the 3rd century, with the rise of the Gupta empire, the majority of North Indians had already embraced Hinduism - and Buddhism was limited to the North West
I think it's a good thing that north India wasn't Buddhist when Islamic invasions began because we would have ended up like Afghanistan and Pakistan. Also the resistance of Hindus in India protected South East Asia from Islamic conquest.
Let me answer this question and also correct some loose talk by the Rinpoche, 1. In India "Hinduism" is defined as every practice that is NOT Abrahamic i.e. islamic, christian or Parsi. In short, Buddhism, Jainism , Hinduism, Sikhi etc. ALL come under "Hinduism". 2. Hinduism does not have a Million "gods", that is a Abrahamic mistranslation and misunderstanding of Hindu scripture and practices. 3. Gaya is one of the most important pilgrimage towns in India which is why Buddha himself went to Gaya. It was not "discovered" by the british, it was always known as Mahabodhi. British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham did dig up the Ashokan age temple with the seat after reading about it in Buddhist literature and knowing its location. 4. Current day muslims in the Indian subcontinent are the original Buddhists who were forcibly converted to Islam. Since they did not have any social construct of Jaati (caste) to prevent their conversion, they were the first victims. Hindu philosophy was always to FIGHT for dharma (karma) and not avoid confrontation like Buddhists. 5. In short Buddhism = Hinduism. Buddhism is just another panth (school) of Hinduism. Hinduism as very many schools. 6. Most Hindus know this, its only Buddhists who want to see themselves as "separate" to establish some sense of Superiority who deny this and has internalized this denial. As the Rinpoche said, the older buddhis monks already know this to be true since they don't care much for political correctness.
Why nobody's talking about Islamic invasions?? Invasions were the prime factors which caused decline of Buddhism.. I am from Bangladesh which is a 90% Muslim country , but during ancient times, the region was predominantly a Buddhist one.. In Afghanistan, Taliban destroyed the bamiyan budhha.. Hinduism and Buddhism are so similar that Buddhism gradually merged into Hinduism.. Buddhism didn't really decline in India.. Number of "Buddhists" did.. We Hindus still respect and practice buddhism
As his holiness Great Dalai Lama has said , Buddhism was born in India and Protected by India…..Jai Hind….Free Tibet from China’s illegal occupation…Long Live Tibet…
In India, Buddhism survived due to Royal Patronage, once the Islamic era began, there was no such patronage. Jainism was supported by Merchants, Brahminic ritual trade helped Hinduism survive... Buddhism was the intellectual thought process, considered to be extravagant... and Buddhism really survived a lot of hostility. From China to Japan, they were in direct conflict with Taoism and Shinto.
except the last sentence about China and Japan, most are incorrect assumptions. Once people understand that Buddhas teaching are one of the methods of Shiva's given 100+ techniques, people would understand how easy it is for a subset to be undistinguishable from the vast ocean of similar knowledge, if someone doesnt talk about Mihirakula or Adi Shankaryacharya when they discuss ''decline'' of buddhism in India, its all baseless assumption.
@ravaladitya6782 I think you ought to have studied the era in Japan and China when Buddhism and Christianity were persecuted. And they worship tantra deities because of the inroads tantra made in Tibet, hence they do not worship Shiva, rather, one of his tantra variations.
@@illuminatusdeus3051 My Tibetan teacher explained just last Sunday that prayer & meditations of the deities is not worship of them or anything outside of us, but rather uncovering the essence & qualities of them within ourselves…growing/increasing bodhicitta.
@sunlovinsnowflake depends, a very highly placed source in the Tibetan system, who was a bonfide monk with a spiritual master told me he was guided by the deity Tara. And that Tara was not an abstraction. Even in Hinduism this tantra, vedanta, yoga, mimamsa, karmic mimasa, Sankhya etc are like different schools of thought, just like Buddhism... it is all part of the same setup or all are distinct in by themselves.... I find this classification of eastern schools to be highly misguided and erroneous... a vedanta follower will easily live with Buddhism but might not find tantra suitable. A Tibetan Buddhist might find tantra to be acceptable but might not find mimamsa acceptable... so classification, kn my view, is an Abrahamic construct that illsuits the east.
@@sunlovinsnowflakeinterestingly, in Hindu Tantra the same happens. Techniques, chants and tantra are not simply to "worship and praises" the deity, but to manifest the aspects of deity within ourselves. To build a closer connection with the deity. The ultimate goal is to become a walking, breathing, living manifestation of the deity, i.e. the practitioner merges with the deity. Very very similiar to achieving bodhisattva and becoming the Buddha.
Thank you Buddha ji. Buddhism never declined in India we merged into one and we carry his legacy too. I am a proud Sanatani "Hindu" and I love buddhas teachings because the ethics, morals, values are same but intellectual philosophies about the source of reality and consciousness are same yet different flavours/prespectives. these are all good and richness of Asian civilizations or Sanatana dharma. true enlightened beings unite people instead of dividing people by creating new religions. the less divisions the less friction and more peace and unity. why should be divide just because of intellectual wrestlings? we should only be divided on philosophical intelletual level but on rest levels there must be harmony. We love Dalai lama, other lamas and buddhas, when time will come and we get opportunity then we won't hesitate to even sacrifice our life for our dear Buddhists as a Kshtriya warrior varna myself. don't fall in a political saperatist or oppressor and oppressed political traps in the name of anti-brahminism or anti-vedism propaganda. The next time when you are asked same question tell them in India hindus and Buddhist merged.
Cunningham was British military engineer. But he was architect as well. Most of the buddhist sites like Bodh gaya, sarnath, kushinagar and lumbini were excavated by him.
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar), Indian Jurist, Statesman, Economist and Architect of Constitution of India, revived Buddhism in India when half a million of his followers took dhamma diksha at Nagpur, India, in October 1956. Namo Buddhay, Jai Bhim 💙
Buddhism decayed primarily for 2 reason in india. 1. Islamic invasion in 10th century. 2. Hinduism absorbed Buddhism as a segment of its vast philosophical thoughts.
Thank God Buddhism and it's Non Violence was decimated by Adi Shankara in India. Otherwise India would have been converted to Islam . Hindus took weapons to defend themselves. Also for any King,Non violent religion is Dangerous. Where will the Army come from?? Vedas have always kept Kshatriyas as important part of Society. Buddhism due to its non Violence approach , was bound to fail.
perhaps another reason may be that buddha as such did not say much that was not already known, examined and kept aside... when buddha came on the scene, bharat was in a severe decline spiritually and there was a vacuum. plus buddha was a prince preaching down to the masses and not debating with scholars and it caught on fast. but soon, buddhism needed to talk to scholars from other streams and soon enough interpretations of what buddha said needed to be made. but to be fair to buddhism, it was ready to do so, and thus came into being the various paths like sautrantika, vaibhashika, vijnanavada, sunyavada, and a collation of many or all of the above then some into tibetan buddhism. buddhism failed in india when it could not win the debates with non dualists. buddhists were holding their own or trying well with the dualists like nyaya vaiseshika, dualists vedantins, yoga, jains etc. most of them had their own dualistic interpretation of the upanishads. but the non dualistic vedanta in its pure form was revived by Adi Sankara and then buddhism simply crumbled in the debates with the the non dualist vedantis. the path of buddhism that is nearest to non dual vedanta might be tibetan buddhism, which incorporated many thoughts of buddhism like theravada, vijnanvada, shoonyavada etc... it comes close, but it still hesitates to take the crucial last step becuase then ti will stop being buddhism and become non dual adviata vedanta. this could be the major reason for decline of buddhism in india. i object to the usage of the word decay. it is not a decay, it is a decline. advaita vedantists dont disrespect or reject buddhism.. they use the thoughts of the schools like vijnanavada , shoonyavada etc as stepping stones to the final destination which is non dual advaita...
We are trying to find our righteous dharmic path. That's what matters. Our buddhist past still lives on with us through tantra and our sadhana techniques. Scientific pursuit too is just also a way of following dharma in my opinion. That's why so many of us from the Dharmic fold( Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain) excel in the fields of academics, especially mathematics, science and languages.
👍👌🙏🙏 Rinpoche Guru touched my cords. As a Sanatani we worship Buddha and have his idol in our local temple. I think Buddhism again became a part of Sanatani Dharma 🙏🙏
Yup , his last statement very well relate with the growth of neo buddhist movement in Indian urban soceity or Zen Buddhism in the form of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism of Diasoku Ikeda .....My whole paternal family except few members are its lifetiy members ...But their philosophy is only 30% of original Buddhist philosophy ...Their book & their teachings doesnt have many of Gautam Buddha's teachings or original buddhist teachings
I don’t know what the reason but still teaching of budha is still very much there in every indian .We subscribe to all ideas common in both but try to think deeply on differences. We call ourselves hindu bcoz other dont subscribe to the idea of having a way of life with beliefs and without calling it religion. Early days budhism used to be considered as SECT in hindu or indian culture but now it is considered as different religion with many things in common with differences but no hate.
Why nobody's talking about Islamic invasions?? Invasions were the prime factors which caused decline of Buddhism.. I am from Bangladesh which is a 90% Muslim country , but during ancient times, the region was predominantly a Buddhist one.. In Afghanistan, Taliban destroyed the bamiyan budhha.. Hinduism and Buddhism are so similar that Buddhism gradually merged into Hinduism.. Buddhism didn't really decline in India.. Number of "Buddhists" did.. We Hindus still respect and practice buddhism
Santhan Dharm (including Hinduism, Buddism, Jainism and Sikhism) says that no one is prone to get eternal suffering or eternal bliss for for thier life choices.
I think it's Totally a wrong question if it means Buddha Dharma declined in india .. actually in india ( Bharat ) Their were so many ways to realise self or called Buddha so it was just one way among other many ways to self realisation which we today call as Buddhism .. India had many many ways to self realisation so it was just a part of it as one method only ..
In the 1990s in the south Indian state of Kerala, there were 92 people who were associated with Buddhism, but today unofficially there are more than 1 lakh. In my district, in a small way, a Dhamma class under the leadership of Triratna Bouddha Maha Sangh is being implemented..there are about 15 people. But they all come with fear..
In recent caste census of Bihar population of Buddhist is more than Jain, however the real population is quite more than it, Buddhism is growing at a very high rate in India
@@max-cs9ko Yes but they are in a lot of financial difficulties..they don't have much space in the commercial trade sector or land allocation..totally few people who get government jobs but they also have less availability of the above and are mostly suffocated by bank loans..
Buddhism is nothing more than extension of Upanishads & bhrahmasutras & Sankhya philosophy of Hinduism. I have a great respect & love for Buddha teaching same strong ideas with different flavour.
He is absolutely right. There is no practical Hinduism or Buddhism or Jainisms. These terms are created by outsiders who are clueless about the great Sanatanah. These are nothing but only the branches of a single tree.
He’s totally wrong abt the number of gods. We have abt 22-33 KINDS of gods or should i call them enhanced or powerful enlightened beings. There are classes and types which will help you or you can invoke them for particular issues or stages in life. We know and believe in 1 god only and in 1 ultimate god. Everything and every other kind is a form or “ansh” of this god or someone who has mastery over a particular aspect of god or his particular power. In the end and beginning and at the top of it all, we Indians totally believe in 1 god only!
Destruction of Buddhist universities by Islamic invaders led to the decline of Buddhist ideas. Both Hindu and Buddhist ideas are Dharmic. Adwaita and Buddhist ideas are quite similar. Adi Shankaracharya, the chief revivalist of Adwaita philosophy is called as Hidden Buddhist.
@@indiapakistanfriends7453 the person who called him prachanna buddha was a dualist vaishnavite(madhavacarya) cuz he couldn't understand philosophy of Sankara 🤣
Buddha is One of Dasha Avatara from Hinduism. So, Buddha's teachings are just another "branch" or addition to what existed. Could it be that Buddhism or better said Buddha's teachings or his experience & technique he offered to end suffering was challenging the strong caste system of that time & it was not in the interest of the elites that such a technique would be spread among lower casts specially & empower them? that would make sense that higher cast like Brahmin would not be at all interested in such a movement growing because socially it could mean big changes.
Prove it, if Shakyamuni is 10th avatar of Hindu God. You can also say Jesus Christ is son of Hindu God Bramha. It is nothing but Hindu Brahmin fabricated story.
"Mass genocide of Buddhist by Hindu extremist " , lmao go and read history kid , and come back when you can pronounce Sanskrit words correctly, you are outsider , don't try to become insider
@@tantrichill192 Same goes with buddhism, There is no man named Buddha. its just a fabricated story by some greedy so called monks, they just repackaged and twisted the vedic hindu Philosophies and created a cult. Prove me wrong
I am Indian Buddhist. People love Hinduism more than anything else. So many people did cultural revival. My ancestors were Hindus, then they converted to Buddhism.
Interesting take on how the diversity of deities is too appealing for Sanatanis to consider switching to more austere Buddhism. Also interesting comment about the contemporary mindfulness stuff as being "shallow Buddhism." For me the greater appeal of Advaita Vedanta is the recognition that only purusha (spirit) is real. That makes more sense to me than the Buddhist anatta teachings. However, I have heard that the Buddhist "not-self" concept has arisen through misinterpretation of the original texts, and that Buddha actually didn't teach that idea.
@@hellboundtruck123 Advaita Vedanta source material is the Vedas. The misinterpretation of Buddhist texts idea is propounded by Ken Wheeler, who has a RUclips channel called Theoria Apophasis.
Mindfulness practices have become shallow today, there is no doubt about it. What the Satipatthana practices refer to are no way what the modernized mindfulness practices refer to.
@@pietwandelaar1743 trust some westerners to throw a spanner by means of "misinterpretations" one can theorize whatever they want to.. take it with a bucket of salt
An Indian Hindu. To be honest, most of India sees the Buddha-the ninth incarnation of Lord Vishu-as a god unto himself, and we enjoy applying his teachings to our daily lives. When I first asked my grandmother what Buddhism was, she told me that it was a sister religion to Hinduism. Although the names are different, the core principles are the same-love, respect, and the belief that everyone can learn from everyone.
I don't understand how Hinduism and Buddhism is different. Since childhood I have been visiting both hindu and Buddhist temples with my mother in the village on various occasions.
Sanatana Dharma = Hinduism + Buddhism + Jainism + Sikhism I don't understand why the WEST or the people living OUTSIDE India, Nepal, Bhutan, Srilanka & other Asian countries present it like a different religion. I don't understand why the WEST see it as different religion. Our core values were always same or you could say, you can easily see similarities between all the above mentioned religions. You can see culture similarities, language similarities, mantra and shloka similarities, and the region where everything is originated is also same. I mean you can see it is somehow related to each other. You can easily find similarities in all the holy books of these above mentioned religions. The common thing found in all these holy books is to promote peace, protect the weak, help everyone, respect your teachers and elders respect the nature, animals and humanity. Sanatana Dharma is not a religion. It's a way of living life. Different texts give different lists of the duties, but in general sanatana dharma consists of virtues such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings, purity, goodwill, mercy, patience, forbearance, self-restraint, generosity, and asceticism. There are many ways to get moksha, mukti, samsara ( liberation from the cycle of Death and Rebirth ). Just like "Siddhartha or Gautam Buddha also known as Shakyamuni" followed one of many methods of Sanatana Dharma to get out from the cycle of Reincarnation. People those who followed him were called boddhis. When their strength or number of followers practicing the same method increased. The West started calling them Buddhism. Same thing happened with the other religion as well. People living In this region that we call south asia, worship all the gods and goddesses found in Sanatana Dharma. But we do also have a family god / godess or guardian that we worship on special occasions. ( Kul Dev / Kul Devi / Isht Dev / Ishta Devata) Let's make a Hypothetical situation with an example what Western Countries did: My family god is shiva and my friends family god is Vishnu and someone else family god might be durga maa. We live in a community where my whole community is of 100 people who worship shiva. After 500 years the community population increased to 100k ( 1 lacs ) so will people start calling us Shivaism, Vishnuism and Durgaism? We are always and will be forever be called the people who follow "Sanatana Dharma". No matter what you call yourself today, the roots will always tell you what fruit you will bear. That's it. Jai shree Ram Jai shree krishna Jai shree Buddha Jai shree Adinath Jai shree Mahavira Jai shree Waheguru We are following the principle that were taught to us. We are following our Dharma. Not the today's meaning of Dharma (religion) but spiritual dharma ( Kartavya - duties, commitment, role, responsibility, obligations). And yeah! Not only we worship gods, we also worship humans (parents, teachers & elders) animals, trees, mountains, rivers, sun, moon, planets, stars and Universe. After all, sound of the Universe is Om, Aum, 🕉️. Scientifically proven. Sanatana Dharma is not a religion. I'm saying this because a religion is always with a founder concept (a human figure). Sanatana Dharma does not have a founder. Nobody knows when and who started it. Only thing we know it is the oldest. We follow the teachings that was provided to us in Bhagwat Geeta, Ramayan, Mahabharat and the 4 Vedas and Upnishad. You will find people practice multiple concepts in Sanatana Dharma. In Sanatana Dharma :- - people those who believe in multiple gods. - people those who believe in single god. - people those who believe there is no god. - people those who believe god is male. - people those who believe god is female. - people those who believe god is both half male and half female. - people those who believe in no god but understands the Universe follows the concept of karma and dharma. Everything is depended on the actions you took in your past life, that will affect your present and decide your future life. - people those who believe in no god but there is a supreme being that is guiding & protecting everything. In the End, We All are the followers of Sanatana Dharma.
Let me clear your confusion. Sanatan dharma is only Hinduism . The word Sanatan refers - A religion which has no founder or important person. All religions have founders or main person ex:- buddha in Buddhism, mahavir in Jainism,guru nanak in sikhism ,mohammad in islam ,jesus in Christianity.. But Hinduism has no any founder not even main person .it is updated time to time specially by rishis( real bramhins) ,Avtars of god ,saints etc. Hinduism is a dharma which consists of almost all types of phylosophies including science, mathematics, spirituality, astrology etc.etc. Problem is that people doesn't like Hindu word and almost all buddhist are hindu haters .. that's why instead of using hindu we use Santan dharma .and tells them u r also part of our Santan dharma.. indirectly we say Hindu hi tumhare bapp hai😂
Stop misleading, hinduism is not a part of sanatan dharma , Hinduism is sanatan dharma , these buddhist, and shikhs are the ignorant groups with their half baked knowledge and greediness they have made seprate cult with certain founder
You don't understand the basic thing. Buddhism flourished and will flourish in India and Nepal became Hindu believes Buddha a 9th incarnation of Hindu God Vishnu. West sees the difference, but we don't.
Let me answer this question and also correct some loose talk by the Rinpoche, 1. In India "Hinduism" is defined as every practice that is NOT Abrahamic i.e. islamic, christian or Parsi. In short, Buddhism, Jainism , Hinduism, Sikhi etc. ALL come under "Hinduism". 2. Hinduism does not have a Million "gods", that is a Abrahamic mistranslation and misunderstanding of Hindu scripture and practices. 3. Gaya is one of the most important pilgrimage towns in India which is why Buddha himself went to Gaya. It was not "discovered" by the british, it was always known as Mahabodhi. British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham did dig up the Ashokan age temple with the seat after reading about it in Buddhist literature and knowing its location. 4. Current day muslims in the Indian subcontinent are the original Buddhists who were forcibly converted to Islam. Since they did not have any social construct of Jaati (caste) to prevent their conversion, they were the first victims. Hindu philosophy was always to FIGHT for dharma (karma) and not avoid confrontation like Buddhists. 5. In short Buddhism = Hinduism. Buddhism is just another panth (school) of Hinduism. Hinduism as very many schools. 6. Most Hindus know this, its only Buddhists who want to see themselves as "separate" to establish some sense of Superiority who deny this and has internalized this denial. As the Rinpoche said, the older buddhis monks already know this to be true since they don't care much for political correctness.
jainism survived bcs they live with sindhi,punjabi groups easily. jains wont have any problem bcs they typically socialise with hindus more. budhist dont have a good chance bcs of many reasons, 1st is many budhist eat meat, its against budhist teachings but they are asian so they cant leave it completely. another is andh ambaedkrites are using budhism as political tool, so normal hindu person gets irritated with these andh ambaedkrites who are spreading hinduphobia. and other major factor is many christian missionaries are mass convverting budhist through cash incentives, these budhist gets lured easily bcs they originally have low belonging of materialstic thing in moral but in this current period the new generations are lured for west citizenship ,abrahamic stamp,and getting a taste of materialistic hunger. new gens dont see being less materialistic as a good sign of survival so they convert for reservations,cash, and christian missionaries knows it.
The actual reason for this is the way the Vedas was interpreted by Buddha. Until 1000 years ago, Jainism and Buddhism was popular amongst kings and masses, cause the vedic rituals of animal sacrifice and sacrifice during prayer and yagna was seen as cruel and barbaric and people were moving away from Sanatana Dharma in the hope for find a non violent equivalent of the path. However, this is where Adi Shankara came in to the scene, and with his Bakthi movement, reinterpreted the vedic rituals to be much more representative than actual, aka, use of kumkum in place of blood etc. and help spread work of advaitham, aka thou art God, God is within. With this there was a literal revival of Hinduism amongst kings and general population, which led a reconversion of population back to practicing Sanatana Dharma from Jainism and Buddhism.
What a whole lotta nonsense. 😂 Vedas weren’t even in existence during Buddhas period. Read Shunyata and Vedanta together, you’ll know Shankar stole the works of Buddha and Nagarjuna. Tweaking bit making Atma fixed. If Atma is changing your entire Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu will perish. 😂 don’t just read from WhatsApp kid
@@acho5424 no brother, rig veda is about 1500 bc or older, but ironically none of the gods the modern neo-hindus pray to exist in there except for maybe Indra. And the vedic religion relates more to ancient Iranian avesta than current hinduism(which is often weaponised for politics). Ofc, older does not mean better. Buddha himself was born in a Vedic royal family, that’s why upon seeing that it was not helping anyone be any better he sought the end to suffering and showed the path.
@@acho5424dude you call other people WhatsApp. But you yourself seem to be whatsapp. When budha came, there was no Vedas 😂. Common man, Rigveda has been found to be more than 5000 years old. It is the oldest text in the human history.
The only reason was that Hinduism philosophy is just better than Buddhism, and don't forget Bhuddha and his disciples were also Hindu! also At that time, Hindu extremism lead to grow Buddhism and Jainism. btw thanks for sharing your perspective sir.
Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, China, Malaysia, Indonesia were Budhist countries and Budhism is disappeard completely from them because of muslim extremism. Thanks to Kind Hindus the jews, persians, Jains, Sikhs, Budhists, Christians, Bohra can still live happily in India.
@@amandmx lol,😂😂 what you mean by know the truth? The channels you have suggested are full propoganda channels with no authenticity. If you want to know the truth, read authentic books, not some propoganda videos.
@@Savitroooi really feel sad for these neo buddhists who claim that every temple was once a buddhist structure every ancient Hindu idol was of Buddha and what not I hope they soon come out of their ignorance
@@ahirbhairavorai7793 The first 50 years were wasted in is-lamizing the country. We should have instead laid the foundation of a dharmic India - teaching dharmic morals and ethics.
@@ahirbhairavorai7793 1000 years destroyed the knowledge you want 80 years to compensate that? and who is going to enforce morality? its not a monarchy anymore its a dumb democracy, even if someone comes with a good law dumb majority will throw it in the trash.
Buddhism is a branch of Sanatan Dharmma which includes Hinduism, Budhism, Jainism & Sikhism.. Hinduism is a cluster of various schools of thoughts such as dwaitha, adwaitha, saiva, vaishnava, tantra, Ganapatya, shakteya, sankhya, yog etc. etc... Hindus consider Buddha as 9th incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
Sanatan dharma is the father of all Bharat born religions be it Buddhism, Jainism or Sikhism. So people should always respect their father, their basic roots and foundation.
Buddhism is one of precious treasure of Bharat (India) along with Sikhism and Jainism. All of these are prosperous religions in the world itself and this is evident to all. India has kept protection for all its treasures from ancient times. We have seen invaders together and still coexist all together to maintain the peace and prosperity in real manner. We are known for our trust level historically.
Although Hinduism and Buddhism have competition but Hindu are not that destructive... The real reason was Islamic invasion that Buddhism wasn't able to survive at all. There was a big blood bath of monks and monarchies where they were destroyed.. justice is still pending for those whose monks lost their lives in places like Nalanda and so on. History is very very brutal .
If this is a Buddhist monk, he is then no different than a Hindu Rishi. It is so pleasant and refreshing to know that a Buddhist is not in competetion with anybody, they are but in competetion within his own self, own mind for betterment or realization. Hindus should re-learn this and get back to their Sanatan way of thinking and be happy within. God bless this man, his presence is healing.
As a Jain, let me answer this question in simpler way. As we all know "Sanatan Sanskriti" (the main mother of indic religions) has 2 paths 1st Shraman Sanskriti (Jainism & Bhudhism) & 2nd Vedic Sanskriti (Hinduism) Now there was a time when Shraman Sanskriti (Jainism & Bhudhism) was prominent in Indian subcontinent, but then came Aadi Shankaracharya ji (a Vedic Sanskriti guru) who by all means did everything to spread the 2nd Stream of sanatan (Vedic Sanskriti aka Hindusim), due to which Jainism & Bhudhism started decreasing in the subconscious. I hope it answers your questions.
Hindus built resistance agaist Islamic invasions at social and regional levels but Buddhists couldn't. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh were all Buddhist majority regions which are now Islamic countries. 🙏
Allopnishad laughs in corner
@@diplodocus3 what is your point??
Nope , it were the brahmin rulers in those regions who couldn't resist muslim invaders . Hinduism was saved by non Brahmin rulers . #HardTruth 😮
Gandhara never had Brahminical rulers, the region was considered outside Bharata@@pboy6670
truth why budhismis dyin, christian missionaries are targetin them . its gettin preserved in china is bcs of martial arts it gained from hindu and china has marketed it as proud thing in world.
As a longtime Buddhist I can say without prejudice that Hinduism predated Buddhism. The Buddha himself was from a Hindu family. He didn't "invent" Meditation. He may have developed his own additional techniques but meditation was already in Hinduism long before him. So Buddhism was more of an "offshoot" if we're to correctly categorize it. Just as Protestantism is an offshoot of Catholicism.
If you take Hinduism and "simplify" it -- take away deity propitiation and just focus on meditation -- what you end up with is Buddhism. So there's Buddhism "in" Hinduism. Therefore Buddhism didn't decay in India. All Hindus practice Buddhism within Hinduism.
Didn’t the mughals termed people living south of indus as hindus? How is it a religion? Spirituality was there before buddhism, yes, but the term hindu didn’t exist before the mughals. You can simply google that.
Longtime Buddhist??
How many Silas do you practice everyday lifestyle?
@hellboundtruck123 "Hindus" don't use that term. They are practitioners of Sanatana Dharma, which can be interpreted as "eternal order." It's not a single religion, but rather a set of spiritual paths. Some paths are dualistic and devotional while others are nondualistic and more philosophical.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m also a Buddhist who was born in a Hindu family. I was once sharing my lamentation with a great Thai meditation master I learned under that it’s a shame there isn’t much Buddhism in India. He told me as long as there are good people like you in India Buddhism is well and alive. It was one of my most touching and impactful moments of my life.
@@pietwandelaar1743 The word sanatan dharma derived from Buddhism. Move on
Buddhism declined in India because of Adi Sankara. He revived Advaitavad in Northern India.
then why there is still a majority Hindus of dvaiitvadins, dvedadvedins etc , all Hindus are not adi Shankaracharyas followers
@Raj-sc8qs they do not understand the differences. Majority of Hindus practice tribal religions, gifted to them by their pre-vedic ancestors.
@@Paramasaugata Because Bhakti Marg is also a part of Advaita vedanta. There are no compulsion! But understanding core philosophy of advaita will helps you a lot in bhakti Marg!
Advaita vedanta sure is better philosophy than Buddhism, If you take Buddhism in wrong way it would lead to nihilism! In advaita, God alone is, everything else is not!
Bruh gets it
I am a Buddhist scholar from South East Asia. I have studied Hindu philosophies as well. Like revered Rinpoche said, "Hindu-ism", "Buddh-ism" are just invented and imposed names by Westerners. First and foremost to understand why Buddhism never took great hold in India we must acknowledge the fact that in India Baudha-Dharma is just another branch of philosophy in "Hindu" thought (Darshana).
There are many darshanas in India that pre-date Buddhism. For example - Samkhya, Yoga, Jaina etc each with its own enlightened sage just like Buddha. Even today, there are spiritual men in India who are followed literally by millions and they have their own philosophies and they may go on to become as impactful as Buddha in a thousand years making themselves very distinct from what we call "mainstream Hinduism" now. So when you have like a dozen competing darshanas that can give you salvation, for Indians to take up Buddha-dharma en-masse made no sense. They could merrily be Krishna and Vishnu followers (Vaishnavas), Shiva followes (Sahivaites), Shakti followers, Advaita followers etc each with its own guru like Buddha, and texts, philosophies in abundance.
Also, like revered Rinpoche said, Islamic invasions played a huge part in uprooting whatever Buddhism existed in India too. While the Hindu dharmic traditions through existing social structures were able to organize and resist the imposition of Islam and fight against the destructions, unfortunately the Buddists, Jains, and some other Indian dharmic religions could not stand up to the onslaught.
Lol liar
Buddhism is way more organized than Hinduism
Buddhism declined way before Islam
My name is sugatha. It’s a Buddhist name but I am Hindu. When Buddhism forgot it roots and started abusing sanatana dharma without realising the depth of sanatana dharma its had to leave India. If they were accommodating in their thought they would have still be here in India.
Buddhism removed God concept.
It aimed at abstract and absolutes.
Shunyata the ultimate goal.
The bhramans who were jealous that Buddhism was thriving started eradicating Buddhism, killing Buddhist monks, some of them ran to other countries to save themselves and started practicing Buddhism there.
That's the reason india don't follow Buddhism as much as much as other countries
Buddhism died when Mahayana became dominant. That is why Sri Lankan Buddhism will also disappear. Buddhism is not materialism. Buddhism is strictly spiritualism where suffering and attachments are sacrificed. As a Hindu i know that the Tibetan Buddhists are more of a Buddhist than so called Sri Lankan Buddhists who follow a baseless interpretation of buddhism
Buddhism is future of India, only it has capability to form a casteless society , most Hindu talk a lot about spiritualism, philosophy,dharma,Hindu unity etc but once any of their family members marry outside caste they will forget everything and show the real face
Buddhism isn't religion but a philosophy😮
Buddhism declined and saved India from Islam.. thanks to Adishankaracharya 🙏
😂Buddhism started to decline much before Isalm stepped in India! What's your point??
@@AnarchistDocBuddhists are the only community in India who have no contribution to India's freedom movement economy science and technology army etc
@@AnarchistDoc If Indians were buddhist until 12th century then it could be easy for muslims to convert Indians easily like indonesians ..Hindus kings rebellions saved India and world from islam
@@AnarchistDoc he also said that only bro. Buddhism declined so that India and it's culture prevailed or else india would be changed into muslim nation like Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc..
The Green cult wanted to have slaves to pay jizya. By not converting the masses, they could keep a 'caste' structure alive.
It's not that Buddhism disappeared, it is simply assimilated in Hinduism. Hinduism doesn't have some fixed principles. It is dynamic and always keep changing with time. India has a tradition of following Enlightened people or Gurus or yogis. When Buddha was born, people were captivated by his teachings, so they spread quickly. In a way Indians were following Buddhist teachings at that time, but that doesn't necessarily means that they were thinking of Buddhism as an exclusive religion.
Their children would not exclusively follow these teachings but would also learns new teachings from wandering Gurus or Yogis or Naths etc. Even after Buddha dies, new Gurus came and spread their teachings. We had many famous gurus like Adi Shankaracharya or Nagarjuna. Their disciples would wander around India and spread their teachings. It was a tradition for Indian kings to invite such Gurus or Yogis, listen to their debates and following the practices of Gurus who won the debates. There are widely available records of such debates happening in courts of Indian kingdoms. Even today we have some gurus like Sadhguru etc whom people follow.
So in a way Hinduism is dynamic and always changing. Buddhism was just a phase which was popular at that time. People haven't forgotten those teachings. Those are assimilated in Hinduism, while people still kept seeking new ways to approach God and Spirituality.
I mean Hinduism have Vedic Philosoply, Buddhism, Vedanta, Puranic, Shavism, Vaishanvism, Stories of gods spread by devoted poets like Tulsidas spreading Ramayana or spread of Bhagvad Gita, teachings of Krishna. In each era, we had Gurus which gave their teachings about how to approach God and Spirituality and they kept assimilating in Hinduism.
Although, I would like to say that current so-called Gurus can't really be compared to old Gurus. Old gurus used to abstain from material attachment, living in hut, wearing minimal clothes, eating minimal food. They also used to meditate in secluded forests or mountains. And in such a way, they used to found new teachings. Nowadays Gurus just package old teachings in a complicated way and present it as their teachings. They enjoy all things that can be bought from money and are increasingly more political. So in a way, I think this new age of Social media is really bad for traditional ways of Hinduism. Rather than following Gurus, now it is better to read the already compiled teaching in Hinduism. In a way, we should close the lore of Hinduism and should not allow any further addition.
So true. We integrated Gautam Buddha as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
@@alankritakaushal😂 This ideas came up in 18th century. The real reason is Hindu's intolerance towards Buddhism.
Actually,
Buddhists have no contribution to India's freedom movement economy science and technology army etc
And, Dr Ambedkar rejected original Mahayana Theravada Buddhism and created his own nabayana Buddhists which is full of hatred.
Nabayana Buddhists don't know anything about Buddhism but they speak always against Hindus.
But, I have never seen any Tibetan Buddhist or Mahayanas saying bad anything to us.
Nabayanas are the reason that many Hindus don't like Buddhists.
@@AnarchistDoc Whatt? Why not ask Dalai Lama himself, if Hindus or India is intolerant of Buddhism? Or maybe ask China why they killed 84000 Buddhist monks in one go when they were only chanting their scriptures in a monastery. Go and check how Buddhist philosophy of Nirvana and eightfold path is taught parallel to Patanjali's ashtangyog. The debate between Mandan Mishr (Buddhist) and Shankaracharya was the turning point when Mishr himself was convinced that Hindu philosophy is more inclusive. I am surprised by the word intolerance.
@@AnarchistDoc hey joker, Ancient India was not like Abhramic religions, if it had any differences those are resolved through scholarly debates. Buddhism is part of Dharma that is part of ancient teachings, jokers like you corrupted by Abhramic religions think like that.
I am a Hindu . The tenets of Buddhism are embedded in Hinduism… Buddhism is like a branch of Hinduism/ Sanatan Dharma.
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@@samm8654yes hindu and buddist are different buddist 👎
budhist worship hindu gods. vishnu and inira. see whole indonesia ,tibet ,hongkong . u hv no knowledge of this . kung fu original names are based on indira and garuda names.but andh ambaedkrites misuse budhism for spreading hinduphobia and seperating budhism as another religion@@Shubham-f1y
No it’s not, hinduism claims Atman..and Buddhism claims anatman. They are 2 completely different concepts
@@bensmith4749 i mean the roots of Dharma, Moksha, Reincarnation and Karma are the same in both. There are bound to be slight differences in all the indic religions. However the roots are same
Sir you absolutely nailed it...there is nothing like Hinduism, Buddhism, jainism, or sikkhism...all are Sanatan
I salute you for being vegan, we can do it we have to spread veganism in India and stop people from drinking and eating milk and its products we also have to tell people that Krishna never liked maakan.
@@johnstaciocardozo7117 what ?
@@punitdas5207 are you vegan?
@@johnstaciocardozo7117 no but krishna was called gopal and makhanchor for a reason
@@punitdas5207 that means hindus cannot be vegan if you believe in Krishna
Full respect to Monk Rinpoche. Dharma is one.
Afghanistan was a fully Buddhist country. It fell to islamist. Then Pakistan part of india. Then Bangladesh part of india. But bhudhism survives in hills
It many north states. South states also. Srilanka has bhudhism. East india has bhudhism. Only Delhi is not india. All indias follow bhudha. All. All indians go to monasteries. All indians worship budha. We dont consider him separate. He was a hindu prince. His name was Siddhartha. So many hindu children are called Siddhartha.
@@induchopra3014 Very true. Dharmic traditions don't have This vs. That concept.
All ways lead to God. Islam and Christianity is politically motivated.
@induchopra3014 Hindu prince very funny. Hinduism itself is copy of Buddhism and Jainsim
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@@dreamadventure8220😂 source bhim ki tatti 😅
As i santani or so called hindu. I always believe so called jainism, so called buddhism, so called sikhism and so called hinduism are one for me. I have everything inside me. They are not religions. They are teachings.
Absolutely
Lol, Hinduism name is not sanataan. Tell me in which hindu religion books it's written your religion name is sanataan?? All Hindus have been doing to this day just steal Buddhist content and heritages.
Core reason is struggle between Hindus and Buddhist. Buddhism having being pan India religion posses enormous power politically which anyone would want to have it. Hindu Brahmin managed to convince kings likes Pushyamitra Sungha who would then go on massacre Buddhist scholars. At the same time Hindu Brahmins would twisted the Buddhist content with mixture of God, wars , violence and other mysticism, which is done mostly by twisting Buddhist Jatak katha and Jains similar folkare. In fact Ramayan is actually Buddhist jatak story earliest version of it predates to 1st century whereas Hindu ramayan written by valmiki can only be traced after 7th century. Destruction of Buddhist universities was another major blow to it's decline. Hindu Brahmins then occupy all the Buddhist Temples so much so Even the sanctuary sanctum of Buddhism the Bod gaya, Mahabodhi temple is controlled by Hindus Brahmins To this date. Hindu Brahmin would then go on to convert Hindu festival like Bijay Dashami, Dipawali, Chaat Puja into Hindu festival with special attribution to their fictional God. Hindus scripture are filled with verse like "All athiest and Buddha followers should be punished like a Theif". In short reason Buddhism decayed in India is simply part of survival of fittest which was slow and systematic process done by Hindus. But truth will prevail. Buddhism is once again being revived in India, with all historical events and heritages associated with it.
1st of all there are no ATHIESTS in Sanatan , we have 6 schools of thoughts one of which doesnt believe in god But, then too we all are equal. And how can Ramayn be younger than Buddha when Buddha himself was born in Lineage of shri Ram . Dont spread this false propoganda here.
Many Bhuddhists were helping the outsiders/ invaders thatswhy pushyamitra shung has to take charge in his hands and defend the nation.
@@dreamadventure8220 From which book u have read that in Hindu scriptures it is written to punish Buddhists. Lol . WhatsApp University students
Buddha and his teaching always lives inside us
The core reasons for the decline are destruction of Nalanda and Adi Shankaracharya reviving Hinduism. There were various schools of philosophy at the time, and there are differences in what Hinduism and Buddhism see as the nature of reality. But regardless of which ism we follow, both these eastern philosophical approaches are similar in a lot of ways and ultimately address the cessation of suffering or nirvana. Let us try not to create rifts between the two, whether one is contained within the other or derived from another is not important. Following them diligently and embodying the teachings are important..
Exactly right from my understanding.
Adi Shankara in 8th C was key in re-establishing the all encompassing philosophy known as Hinduism by founding cornerstones in the 4 corners of the subcontinent.
Not the same as Hindutva ... which is a political party trying to control masses.
Fascinating talk nevertheless.
@@zacsamuel7295 what's the definition of the word hindutva as per your understanding??
@@zacsamuel7295 This guy doest understand poltical need for organisation or Khistraya dharma is needed for a society to function smoothly its not to control the masses it gives the people the opportunity to shape policy that affects them through casting there vote based on there interests its funny that your not critical of other more dangerous political ideologies like communism,Islamism and Dominism through the world.
@@zacsamuel7295it's wrong to say Hindutva is all about controlling the masses. Do not make a statement like this without knowing the background. Hindutva is an attempt to make the hindus passionate about their religion like the followers of Islam and Christianity. You must do your research to find out how followers of Islam were bullies in India for decades with the tacit support of the Congress govt led by the Nehrus and The Gandhis who were originally muslims. The hindus were made spineless by the Congress party for decades. Hindutva is the only way to counter the huge threat posed by the followers of Islam.
@@zacsamuel7295 Buddhists cannot face the wrath of islamic Invasions with all the peace and kindness! Buddhists were eliminated from Afghanistan and india due to the Islamists! But hindus tried their best to resist them! That's only because of their faith in dharma!
I m from bihar. Gautam buddha had came to my village. There is temple for him. We also worship Buddha.
Sidharth koi bhagwan nahi tha phir kyu PUJJA karte hi bhai
@@THE_SUNNY_ARYAkyunki Magadh ke liye buddh bhagwan hai. I am myself from a village near Bodhgaya and we also worship Buddha as a god despite being Hindu because we are Magadhi .😊
Actually, I don't know if he is aware of or not, but it happened in around late 8th century. So In India we used to practice a system of Shastratha (More like a debate on interpretation of the teachings). Buddhism was on peak after Maurya and Ashoka empire, coz no Hindu priest or guru was able to defeat Bhuddist monks in Shastrath. The rules of these debates were that if you loose in the debate you whole heartedly follow the philosophy of the winner and make him your guru. That's how Buddhism rose in India and everywhere else. Its similar to how in Japan Dojo masters system used to be. If other Dojo defeat the master of another Dojo they used to go under the umbrella of the winning master. This was similar just instead of fight here it was a debate of their philosophies and teachings. So Buddhist defeated many Hindu monks for centuries and became the most practised belief in South Asia. Until, Adi Shankaracharya was born in 788. He obtained Hindu knowledge at a very young age and became a Vedic scholar and his interpretation gave birth to the new form (Interpretation/Darshan) of Vedic philosophies its called Adwait Vedanta. No Buddhist monks were able to defeat him in Shastratha and when defeated they became his disciples. He travelled throughout the region what is now called India and Pakistan and defated all the monks which led to decline of Buddhism in India & Pakistan.
Kumarila Bhatta was main one who defeated Buddhists
Lol, Core reason is struggle between Hindus and Buddhist. Buddhism having being pan India religion posses enormous power politically which anyone would want to have it. Hindu Brahmin managed to convince kings likes Pushyamitra Sungha who would then go on massacre Buddhist scholars. At the same time Hindu Brahmins would twisted the Buddhist content with mixture of God, wars , violence and other mysticism, which is done mostly by twisting Buddhist Jatak katha and Jains similar folkare. In fact Ramayan is actually Buddhist jatak story earliest version of it predates to 1st century whereas Hindu ramayan written by valmiki can only be traced after 7th century. Destruction of Buddhist universities was another major blow to it's decline. Hindu Brahmins then occupy all the Buddhist Temples so much so Even the sanctuary sanctum of Buddhism the Bod gaya, Mahabodhi temple is controlled by Hindus Brahmins To this date. Hindu Brahmin would then go on to convert Hindu festival like Bijay Dashami, Dipawali, Chaat Puja into Hindu festival with special attribution to their fictional God. Hindus scripture are filled with verse like "All athiest and Buddha followers should be punished like a Theif". In short reason Buddhism decayed in India is simply part of survival of fittest which was slow and systematic process done by Hindus. But truth will prevail. Buddhism is once again being revived in India, with all historical events and heritages associated with it.
Sir, Actually From Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, China, Malaysia, Indonesia etc.., used i be Buddist counntries.
Buddism doesn't have any method to stand up against the violent invasions. All the buddist countries that were invaded by Muslims, they very very quickly took them over and converted to islam. It is super easy to kill, kick out Buddist because it has NON-VIOLENCE written all over.
Just an example Afganistan taliban govt. demolished a big Budda statue,because in Isalam it is HARAM to have idols. That just shows that Islamic expansion invasions DOES have a lotnof role to play for Buddism not surviving in India.
Well said! All those non violence and love and compassion won't work if you have sword placed on your neck! This is why Hinduism survived! Even though the core teaching of Hinduism is about Oneness! Hindus understood the role of individuals to choose dharma over adharma! Thanks to Kshatriyas who fought for Dharma! These Buddhists can only talk and preach when it comes to real life they gets wiped out by invaders!
@@AdvaiticOneness1 yeah!! Agreed. Ironically enough if you see in our country these Christian and Islamic forces are supporting ambedkar and joining buddhism. Where Dr. Ambedkar said Christians and Islam always work against India. These very support our folks to convert to Buddhism. So after a later time it is easy for them to convert them to these peaceful religions.
@@MedhamshMaringanti The main problem with hindus is that they don't know the core philosophy of Hinduism which is found in Upanishads, vedas etc. All they know is ritualistic aspect of Hinduism. In reality, ritualistic aspec or bhakti Marg is just one part/ one among the many ways to lead a spiritual life in Hinduism. Not knowing the true knowledge of our scriptures lead our young generations to get exposed to other ideologies and conversion mafias! The so called Ambeakarites are bunch of hate groups, they don't know anything about core philosophies of Buddhism nor Hinduism! And what's more sad is that these people joins with Abrahamic religions and bash Hinduism for no reason!
THE TRUTH
Hinduism was uprooted from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia. What you have to say about this? Wasn't Hindus fault caused this? We lost 4 countries. We also got easily converted by the muslim mleechas.
I appreciate that you mentioned, that initially Hinduism and Buddhism were unnamed .That's just because the concept of dharma ,common to the both, is very different than the abrahamic concept of religions...for sure its an enforced identity....and I would like to add that the above statement also implies that there was no actual line seperating Hinduism and buddhism....the core buddhist principles are 70-80% similar to the samkhya tradition in Hinduism...also the mahayana buddhist practices like tibetian-tantra and diety worship are common to Hinduism too....
So in my opinion there is no actual division between hinduism and buddhism ,and if still people claim it to be so....then there are further more possible divisions that could be made in them....the reality is , all the religions that originated in the indian subcontinent are one under the laws of dharma-karma-moksha....
Concept of self is different in buddhism
@@antiabrahamicreligion I agree...but you will find distinction in the concept of self in various sects of Hinduism too....and that's perfectly fine...
Hinduism Buddhism are one
Yes!🙏
Budhism is very iherent and deeply ingrained in Indians. Every Sanatani is a Budhist, Jain and Sikh simultaneously
No 😂 Buddhists are only 1% . Don't say we are Buddhists
And Earth revolves around Saturn
Many people wouldn't like this truth.
Hindus often try to hide behind the identity of others
jokes
One word answer:
Adi Shankaracharyaji
Hinduism is like a big sponge. It will absorb any idea with out loosing its shape fully. I remember my son in Christian School brings a small nice picture of baby Christ and Mary. My old mother (80+) saw the picture and put it in our puja room shelf next to that of baby Krishna. That's our Hindu culture.
Beautiful 🙏🏻
That shows how tolerant we are as a society towards others
@@namah4399 Polytheistic societies where divinity can assume multiple forms tend, by their very essence, to be more tolerant than those societies in which the adoption of a physicality for the sacred is censored and it is assured that "There is no God but..."
I feel sorry for him ...he didn't touch the main reason Adi Shankaracharya.. Closing eyes not to see truth...shunyata to purnayata..
What's purnyata
@@dannystark7668 Completion and salvation.
@@dannystark7668single unified consciousness *saccidananda* that exists alone
The biggest misconception is to think that Budhism was a seperate religion. People made it so later, but when it was there it was just another stream of diverse thinking like the other streams. Else nothing can explain Chanakya being a teacher of Chandragupta. In this land, the main culture is pretty strong and was flourishing so it continued. You could actually see many ancient temples with both Budhist and Hindu sculptures. But in other lands like China there was no strong and societal culture so the Budhist stream took over.
dude your comments is BS, stop commenting nonsense, what do you know about other country such as china.
Another stream of diverse thinking = another Religion
@@Sugar-iw2qr Not necessarily. It is similar to Shaiva-Vaishnava, dvaita-advita etc., Even now Budhists, Jain's, Sikhs don't act as if they are a separate religion. Many rituals are common and you will not feel them differently from you.
I am sorry about the monk. He has no good answers , becase buddha never born in india. That is why, buddihism never a main stream religion in india. There were different munis in same buddha era , such as jyna mahaweer etc. Buddha's name in encient texts and inscriptions is mentioned as "gothama". Everything related to this gothama buddha can be found in neighboring country to india.
Whole messed up done by british and it has been followed to date. This is now a public secret in Sri lanka. Unfortunately sri lankan government keep mum on this due to hidden political pressure . Buddhist need to come forward to find true buddhist history.
@@LearningLK Your message is confusing. Budha alias sidhartha alias Gautama was very much born in India and got his self-realization in Boudh Gaya. Just like Charvaka stream of thought, which is about atheism, Budhism was another stream. Budhism was relatively popular in India but couldn't become mainstream due to lack of societal framework as rightly said by the monk. Else nothing explains Chanakya being the Guru of Chandra Gupta. There was nothing like a religion that time. Hinduism is diverse unlike the monolithic religions.
As a Hindu we have Buddha Bhagwan's Statue and we do offer him flower and worship like how we do for our gods. I do pray to Buddha everyday and recently got connected to Tara maa. We don't consider Buddha as a Decoration piece kept on Shoe keeping box at the entrance of house. This is how modern people are literally treating a God. Breaks my heart everytime I watch it online
Buddhism is a more advanced spiritual practice than Hinduism.
@@StimParavane Let's not go there. Purpose of religion is to make our life better. No need to compare. You need to Chill.
So true
@@StimParavaneno wonder it didnt stand chance against advaita vedanta 🤡
@@antiabrahamicreligion With Hinduism, oneness with Brahman means there is still a subtle duality. You need to go beyond this and that is where Buddhism comes in.
Many Buddhists in Indian subcontinent converted to Islam. About 40% population of Indian subcontinent is Muslim. Muslims have two castes: Ashraf(Upper caste) and Ajlaf(Lower caste).
Almost all of the Ajlaf people are converted to Islam from Buddhism.
And people who think meditation was Buddha's invention no don't be oversmart Meditation was and always will be invention from Hinduism Sanatan... Meditation was part of Sanatan way before Buddhism came to it's form...🕉️
This is an interesting take. It may totally have been the case in India, but we can also see how Buddhism has evolved and adapted into a social thing in Thailand, Cambodia, China etc
...then you can say that Buddhist over there has taken the wrong path
Core reason is struggle between Hindus and Buddhist. Buddhism having being pan India religion posses enormous power politically which anyone would want to have it. Hindu Brahmin managed to convince kings likes Pushyamitra Sungha who would then go on massacre Buddhist scholars. At the same time Hindu Brahmins would twisted the Buddhist content with mixture of God, wars , violence and other mysticism, which is done mostly by twisting Buddhist Jatak katha and Jains similar folkare. In fact Ramayan is actually Buddhist jatak story earliest version of it predates to 1st century whereas Hindu ramayan written by valmiki can only be traced after 7th century. Destruction of Buddhist universities was another major blow to it's decline. Hindu Brahmins then occupy all the Buddhist Temples so much so Even the sanctuary sanctum of Buddhism the Bod gaya, Mahabodhi temple is controlled by Hindus Brahmins To this date. Hindu Brahmin would then go on to convert Hindu festival like Bijay Dashami, Dipawali, Chaat Puja into Hindu festival with special attribution to their fictional God. Hindus scripture are filled with verse like "All athiest and Buddha followers should be punished like a Theif". In short reason Buddhism decayed in India is simply part of survival of fittest which was slow and systematic process done by Hindus. But truth will prevail. Buddhism is once again being revived in India, with all historical events and heritages associated with it.
National Emblem of India is a representative seal of the Republic of India that is adapted from the 'Lion Capital of Ashoka Pillar'. Ashoka- The Great who was a Buddhist.
Ashoka jab Samrat the tab hindu the , Buddhists bana Samrat gaya.
Buddhists are the only community jiski koi contribution nehi bharat ki azadi economy ISRO science and technology army etc me.
Raja Ram Chandra ki jay: Indian army
Lion capital of Ashoka pillar because Ashoka was a hindu king . When he adopted Buddhism his kingdom has been gone😂
truth why budhismis dyin, christian missionaries are targetin them . its gettin preserved in china is bcs of martial arts it gained from hindu and china has marketed it as proud thing in world.
also , budhism is dyn in india is bcs of andh ambaedkrites. they are making own version of budhism. not original budhism
@@sudiptasarkar-zt6jjSamrat Asok has history with evidence. But Ram has no history.
Very glad sir,,,,it's obvious that there was neither hindu or buddhist But only SANATANA that's Buddha talk on Dhammapada
Gautama the Buddha has already been a part of the Lord's 10 most important avatars. I adore Buddha a lot. Buddhism, Jainism, and even Sikhim are all branches of Sanatan Hindu Dharma. Buddha and Mahavira and Guru Nanak are Bharat's gifts to the world and without Shiva we're nothing.
Jay SriRam ☝🏾🌹🚩💥🕉🌺🔥🙏🏽
Bro ur avatar is Sugata Buddha.
Not goatama Buddha.
Our Buddha is real human being.
Ur Buddha is fictional character
2 GB Ram 🍾
Watch #hamaraateet n #sciencejourney then you know the truth😂
@@amandmx 2 GB Ram 🍾...bosede blue man ... World most races religion
@@develheartfellow8154rama is very respected in Buddhism, According to dasharatha jataka rama is considered to be the previous life of the Buddha. Rama and Buddha share the same ancestor ikshvaku( solar dynasty) including Mahavira. Don't insult dharma.
Again Brahman religion will fall and buddhism will rise.
This man has understood the most important thing in Indian history. Most Indians and non Indians have not understood this simple truth that Hinduism and Buddhism were not different religions as Abrahmic people understand it.
The Buddha like Guru Nanak is revered as avatars of Vishnu by most in India. The practice of Buddhism fractured into multiple sects much like hinduism. The simple answer is we love all our avatars.
Why would you be so blind to the fact that GuruNanak saheb and Shakyamuni Buddha opposed the 4-caste system of the Vaishnavites.
So how can a Divisive avatar take an avatar that opposes his earlier avatar of Lord Krishna.
Shaivites were more open to darker skinned folks and till today lots of temples of shiva South india have dark idols of Bholenaath.
@@akashtriz Lord Krishna's teachings are of the varna system and not caste system. The varnas are based on merit and not birth
@@akashtriz The Buddha didn't really oppose caste system (there was no caste then, more like varna). Varna is nothing but division of labour - why would Buddha oppose varnas? Without varnas, society will collapse
Vishnu avatar simply means the one who is doing the job of preserving Dharma so anyone who is simply preserving Dharma is known as Vishnu Avatar ( The preserver of Dharma ) 🙏🏻
Yes sir
Truth is Yogic science (Meditation and Physical exercise) is the root of Eastern/Dharmic Philosophies (Hinduism, Buddhism Jainism and Sikhism). Abrahamic intervention for more than 1000 and years screwed everything and gave birth to -ism business in india. All of this talks about concepts of Karma, Dhyana, Moksha (Nirvana in Buddhism) and many. I wish one day all this philosophies join together and helps people.
You are right and wrong at the same time
The biggest and most obvious answer to this quesion, which all Tibetans intentionally shy away from and are purposefully blind to, is that in India Buddhism intermixed so much with other "Hinduistic" beliefs, that it became virtually indistinguishable as something separate, of its own. This can be clearly seen today in the case of Vajrayana "Buddhism" where very obviously the vast majority of its practices and teachings have nothing to do with the historical Buddha, but rather have come from so many other Indian spiritual beliefs and traditions that got woven into and incorporated into "Buddhism" over the centuries
Brahamana Chanakya used the Alexander's invation to invade the Buddhist Magadha kindom to regain the power of Brahamanism in early India.
Vajrayana at it’s core remains a non-dualistic thought same as the historical buddha, at it’s core is always wisdom and compassion and not a permanent inherent self. Even in vajrayana the process of practice is no-self (dependent origination) unlike neo-hinduism, which is based on a permanent self(soul/aatman) aiming to reach a higher self or primordial self.
Also did you know that the historical buddha himself gave teachings of vajrayana on vulture peak? And moreover there are similarities because a lot of it was plagiarised by shankaracharya, just look at advaita vedanta which came much later. And yes, there are some yogic practices(not all) that were already existing in India during buddha’s time but certainly not enough or efficient to alleviate suffering of sentient beings hence buddha came up with the path.
You think Vajrayana Buddhism has nothing to do with historical Buddha, because you don’t understand what is vajrayana Buddhism.
Only Western new age Buddhists see the similarities. It was hindu who copied from Buddhism and made a new concept of their own. Shunyata was emphasized by the Acharya Nagarjuna and Adi Shankaracharya copied the concept and made it Advaita Vedanta.
The downfall of Buddhism in India is Brahmins. In one line.
Buddha and his dhamma written by Dr ambedkar is revolutionary in bring a secular version of Buddhism, not only challenged Hinduism but also contemporary Buddhist beliefs and values….
Challenged to Hinduism 😂 all buddhist are converting into Christian,islam and most of them r also going to bageshvar dham now a days😂😂
Bro people r tierd to become atheist and poor ..some buddhist are now saying that lakshmi is mother of buddha and started praying lakshmi mas for money 😂😂
Buddhism is becoming joke now a days 😂😂
Dhaba saheb read max muller translation of hindu scripture.. He never learned sanskrit.. And wrote nonsense about buddhism and Hinduism... Creating a sect of Buddhism who's core purpose is to hate hindus
Buddhism is not a different religion in India.Buddhism is the part/Sampraday of Greater Sanatan Dharma/Hindu Dharma.Buddhism is a philosophy of India which is inspired by Sankhya,Yoga,Vaisheshik darshan of Vedic Philosophy. Siddharth Gautam Buddha were one more great Rishi/Sant/Gyani/enlighten person of Bharat.Dharma is essance of every Sampraday of Indic religion and philosophy. Dharma above all 🙏🏼🚩
Buddhism is a more advanced spiritual practice than Hinduism.
@@StimParavane Than you should understand the Vedic and Vedantic philosophy read upnishad which is the base of all Dharmic ecosystem.If you are comparing spiritualism than I think have not understood what is spiritualism. Buddhism originated from Sankhya Yoga Darshan of Vedantic philosophy which is one of six philosophy of Vedant.🙏🏼
@@StimParavane nope
@@apnadesh4438 You have a shallow understanding of both Buddhism and spirituality.
@@SerCrispinCole Yes. And I can explain it. But if you want to keep digging, please go ahead.
Buddhism is a internal part of every Hindus, the philosophy is so similar
It's not, difference is huge. Even bigger difference is between ancient hinduism and hinduism. Two totally different "relligions".
@@RaZziaN1 It's basically the same thing - just repackaged
@@RaZziaN1exactly bro every hindu cultural supremacist claims Buddhism as a part of Hinduism they have also dragged Buddha in mythology and imposed as 9th avatar of Vishu.This is shear madness and propaganda.
@@RaZziaN1 gods are same,mystics are same and philosophies are same.
@@mlg1279 both are indic thoughts. Buddhism is a-spiritual/agnostic while hinduism is theistic but philosophies have intermingled with each other so much.
The main true reason is Islamic Invasion of India. Hinduism allow Violence to Protect Dharma while Buddhism has no focus on violence. Example ? Afghanistan was a buddhist country.
Adi Shankaracharya destroyed Buddhism in India.
@@ronhak3736 Not single handedly , there were many reasons.
I am hindu and love both religion Hinduism and Buddhism
I have a sweet answer to this -
Because we Indian Hindus never treated Buddhism separate from Hinduism, but just an another way (sect) to reach to God.
So people tried it. When other great scholars of Hinduism like Adi Shankar, Madhavacharya showed new ways, people turned back to those again in Hinduism ✌️
The guy is nuts ...simple amd plain....😅 cheers
He doesn’t make much sense to me…actually he doesn’t seem to know much about the Dhamma at all.
bcs u r not pure budhist. u r andh ambaedkrite budhists.
budhist dont have a good chance bcs of many reasons, 1st is many budhist eat meat, its against budhist teachings but they are asian so they cant leave it completely. another is andh ambaedkrites are using budhism as political tool, so normal hindu person gets irritated with these andh ambaedkrites who are spreading hinduphobia. and other major factor is many christian missionaries are mass convverting budhist through cash incentives, these budhist gets lured easily bcs they originally have low belonging of materialstic thing in moral but in this current period the new generations are lured for west citizenship ,abrahamic stamp,and getting a taste of materialistic hunger. new gens dont see being less materialistic as a good sign of survival so they convert for reservations,cash, and christian missionaries knows it.
budh was a kshatriya, he took sanyas for knowledge. but he inherited kshatriya knowledge, martial arts, etc. but indian budhist have no kshtriya gun, tibetans absorbed those teachings and marketed it as their own. but in india, no budhist practice martial art. even indian budhist dont know that martial arts orginal names are made upon indira and garuda names.
Historically speaking,because people just slowly rejected it due its impractical nature,stress on monastic lifestyle and also their collaboration with foreign invaders due to politics.The Kushan empire that came right before the golden age Guptas were Buddhists from Bactria.Also the Hun invasions and the Buddhist reaction to it had a huge impact on the common man.But because both were dharmic religions,there was limited bloodshed between the two,if at all and both the kushans and Gupta respected the others religion during their rule.It continued to thrive in centers of learning like Nalanda and was generally respected and accepted as a nastika philosophy.Buddhism was not destroyed by Hinduism,contrary to what western universities today teach to create a separation between the two.Later Islamic invasions did the rest.
Only one answer adi guru shankaracharya ❤❤
Sanatana Dharma is the Tree.
Hinduism is the mirror image of that tree.
Jainism, Buddhism & Sikhism are 3 saplings taken out of the same tree and planted next to it.
Decline of Buddhism saved Bharatvarsh from complete Islamization .
Yes there is no such thing as hinduism and Buddhism ❤ from India
4:46 I respectfully disagree with the monk. I am an Indian Zen Buddhist from Bodhidharma lineage, and Buddhism has always had social responsibility from the beginning from the time of Buddha. The fact that Buddha went and taught the masses proves he believed in social responsibility. The problem is that many people haven't read the oldest Buddhist scriptures, the Nikayas, where Buddha gave clear instructions on how to create a Buddhist society not just for monks but also for layperson.
Really?
The prince bodhidharma who became a Buddhist monk and started kung fu?
Nice
@@Visakh_S_Nair Pretty ironic since the Bodhidharma himself was a Hindu kshatriya and vigorously practiced the Varna system.
Its the "Shasan" i.e. "self control" that forms the basis of "zazen" , now know as Zen.
@@odomangulati7079
Any civilization, if it wants to sustain and survive and to ultimately grow, it needs a system like Varna".
Varna is not discrimination of a humans but instead discrimination of human intelligence and capabilities,
Different humans are capable of different things, A brave man cannot be replaced with a coward in a battlefield. Varna was a system that our ancestors used for the proper utilisation of the human work force, but as always it gets corrupted.
Bodhidharma chose to become a monk was because of violence among the warriors for the greed for Power".
@@odomangulati7079
Even our great warrior monk parashuram (who is the guru of Indian martial arts, brought kalaripayattu),
who slayed corrupt rulers for misuse of power.
@@Visakh_S_Nair To be fair the truth is that Bodhidharma taught 18 Yoga Asana's to the shaolin monks along with Dhyana. There is no actual evidence that he taught them any warfare.
How hard it is for him to make us understand the answer.
Buddhism didn’t decayed in India it just got assimilated into it
Just like Hinduism didn’t decayed in southeastern countries it just got assimilated into Buddhism 🕉️
Initially Buddhism was critical of Vedic karmkands then later Buddhists of ancient India themselves started doing the same and no difference between the two was left
Buddhism declined in the Indian Subcontinent because of Muslim Arab and Turkic invasions. Buddhism flourished in the North-Western and Eastern Indian Subcontinent. The North-Western part was swamped by invading Muslims who imposed Islam in the entire region that today forms Afghanistan, parts of the Balochistan region and the Khyber belt of Pakistan. In the Eastern part, the world-renowned centre of learning- the Nalanda University was burned down by the Muslim Turkic invaders and that just destroyed Buddhism in that area. So, even though Buddhism had been waxing and waning in the Indian Subcontinent even prior to these invasions by Muslims, the Muslim invasion gave it an irrecoverable blow.
"Wherever the Buddha's Teachings have flourished, either in cities or countrysides, people would gain inconceivable benefits .
The land and people would be enveloped in peace.
The sun and moon would shine clear and bright. Wind and rain would appear accordingly and there would be no disasters.
Nations would be prosperous and there would be no use for soldiers or weapons.
People would abide by morality and accord with laws .
They would be courteous and humble, and everyone would be content without injustices.
There would be no thefts or violence. The strong would not dominate the weak and everyone would get
their fair share.
Namo Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏
Beautiful.
for that you need a second buddha
Indeed. I just wish India had protected Tibet against the commies. We need to protect Tibet, its identity and the Buddhism there. I am a proud Advaithin and all Sanatanis respect and revere Buddhism.
But you cannot sit next to a mad dog, Abhramic religions would have wiped out Buddhist nations. Though not possible in modern times may be they are now doing it through rapid breeding.
Yes this prosperity leads to fear of fight, topped with Buddhist teaching of complete non violence invites barbarians hordes. Then all is lost.
He hasn't answered the question though.
1.The indic religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, are at its core principally the same. I would go to the extent of calling each sect(s) of the other; 'philosophy' is probably a better word than sect / religion in this case though. One can argue which one is which but the concept of Aum (Om) is at their core.
2. Royal patronage - depending on which school of philosophy a certain empire belonged to - that sect received royal patronage. From BC through the first millennium AD, these religions saw crests and troughs in their following based on royal patronage they received.
3. Most importantly - Adi Sankaracharya from modern day Kerala and his philosophy of Advaita ( non duality) ; that everything that exists is 'one' with the universe (Aum), and there is no separate God but oneself, helped re-establish Hinduism. Note that most of North India was Buddhis or Jains at this time, and converted to this advaitic Hinduism circa 8-9 century AD.
4. Bhakti movement: later Bhakti movement established the concept of personal gods and almost annihilated other sects. This movement preached a personal connection with the 'supreme'. Basically saying it doesn't matter what and whom you worship - it's your personal belief system that matters as long as it is within certain ethical / moral boundaries. This struck a chord with the masses.
The argument presented in this video that several gods in Hinduism and Karma in Buddhism was a factor in Buddhism not being present in numbers it should otherwise have in India is an extremely lazy one. Several buddhistic sects are polytheistic with several million gods, and more importantly, Hinduism has the concept of Karma as it's core philosophy. Essentially, Buddhism and Hinduism are not very different. The people at that time didn't see anything unique or different that Buddhism could offer. From atheism, monotheism, henotheism to polytheism Hinduism covered a large 'real estate' of belief systems and considered Buddhism to be an extension (sub set) of Hinduism. So, while one can argue that Buddhism doesn't have followers in India; it can also be counter argued that all hindus are also buddhistic, and therefore 80% of India's population.
According to the Kalady ashram, Adi Shankaracharya lived around 1st Century BCE.
Also, by the 3rd century, with the rise of the Gupta empire, the majority of North Indians had already embraced Hinduism - and Buddhism was limited to the North West
I think it's a good thing that north India wasn't Buddhist when Islamic invasions began because we would have ended up like Afghanistan and Pakistan. Also the resistance of Hindus in India protected South East Asia from Islamic conquest.
Let me answer this question and also correct some loose talk by the Rinpoche,
1. In India "Hinduism" is defined as every practice that is NOT Abrahamic i.e. islamic, christian or Parsi. In short, Buddhism, Jainism , Hinduism, Sikhi etc. ALL come under "Hinduism".
2. Hinduism does not have a Million "gods", that is a Abrahamic mistranslation and misunderstanding of Hindu scripture and practices.
3. Gaya is one of the most important pilgrimage towns in India which is why Buddha himself went to Gaya. It was not "discovered" by the british, it was always known as Mahabodhi. British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham did dig up the Ashokan age temple with the seat after reading about it in Buddhist literature and knowing its location.
4. Current day muslims in the Indian subcontinent are the original Buddhists who were forcibly converted to Islam. Since they did not have any social construct of Jaati (caste) to prevent their conversion, they were the first victims. Hindu philosophy was always to FIGHT for dharma (karma) and not avoid confrontation like Buddhists.
5. In short Buddhism = Hinduism. Buddhism is just another panth (school) of Hinduism. Hinduism as very many schools.
6. Most Hindus know this, its only Buddhists who want to see themselves as "separate" to establish some sense of Superiority who deny this and has internalized this denial. As the Rinpoche said, the older buddhis monks already know this to be true since they don't care much for political correctness.
Why nobody's talking about Islamic invasions?? Invasions were the prime factors which caused decline of Buddhism.. I am from Bangladesh which is a 90% Muslim country , but during ancient times, the region was predominantly a Buddhist one.. In Afghanistan, Taliban destroyed the bamiyan budhha.. Hinduism and Buddhism are so similar that Buddhism gradually merged into Hinduism.. Buddhism didn't really decline in India.. Number of "Buddhists" did.. We Hindus still respect and practice buddhism
👉Hindus, Buddhist, Sikhs, Jains are basically majorly ONE. 💛🧡
Not a Single Hindu Disrespect Lord Buddha but so called newly Buddhists sees themselves different from SANATANA DHARMA
As his holiness Great Dalai Lama has said , Buddhism was born in India and Protected by India…..Jai Hind….Free Tibet from China’s illegal occupation…Long Live Tibet…
In India, Buddhism survived due to Royal Patronage, once the Islamic era began, there was no such patronage. Jainism was supported by Merchants, Brahminic ritual trade helped Hinduism survive... Buddhism was the intellectual thought process, considered to be extravagant... and Buddhism really survived a lot of hostility. From China to Japan, they were in direct conflict with Taoism and Shinto.
except the last sentence about China and Japan, most are incorrect assumptions. Once people understand that Buddhas teaching are one of the methods of Shiva's given 100+ techniques, people would understand how easy it is for a subset to be undistinguishable from the vast ocean of similar knowledge, if someone doesnt talk about Mihirakula or Adi Shankaryacharya when they discuss ''decline'' of buddhism in India, its all baseless assumption.
@ravaladitya6782 I think you ought to have studied the era in Japan and China when Buddhism and Christianity were persecuted. And they worship tantra deities because of the inroads tantra made in Tibet, hence they do not worship Shiva, rather, one of his tantra variations.
@@illuminatusdeus3051 My Tibetan teacher explained just last Sunday that prayer & meditations of the deities is not worship of them or anything outside of us, but rather uncovering the essence & qualities of them within ourselves…growing/increasing bodhicitta.
@sunlovinsnowflake depends, a very highly placed source in the Tibetan system, who was a bonfide monk with a spiritual master told me he was guided by the deity Tara. And that Tara was not an abstraction. Even in Hinduism this tantra, vedanta, yoga, mimamsa, karmic mimasa, Sankhya etc are like different schools of thought, just like Buddhism... it is all part of the same setup or all are distinct in by themselves.... I find this classification of eastern schools to be highly misguided and erroneous... a vedanta follower will easily live with Buddhism but might not find tantra suitable. A Tibetan Buddhist might find tantra to be acceptable but might not find mimamsa acceptable... so classification, kn my view, is an Abrahamic construct that illsuits the east.
@@sunlovinsnowflakeinterestingly, in Hindu Tantra the same happens. Techniques, chants and tantra are not simply to "worship and praises" the deity, but to manifest the aspects of deity within ourselves. To build a closer connection with the deity. The ultimate goal is to become a walking, breathing, living manifestation of the deity, i.e. the practitioner merges with the deity. Very very similiar to achieving bodhisattva and becoming the Buddha.
Thank you Buddha ji. Buddhism never declined in India we merged into one and we carry his legacy too.
I am a proud Sanatani "Hindu" and I love buddhas teachings because the ethics, morals, values are same but intellectual philosophies about the source of reality and consciousness are same yet different flavours/prespectives. these are all good and richness of Asian civilizations or Sanatana dharma. true enlightened beings unite people instead of dividing people by creating new religions. the less divisions the less friction and more peace and unity. why should be divide just because of intellectual wrestlings? we should only be divided on philosophical intelletual level but on rest levels there must be harmony. We love Dalai lama, other lamas and buddhas, when time will come and we get opportunity then we won't hesitate to even sacrifice our life for our dear Buddhists as a Kshtriya warrior varna myself.
don't fall in a political saperatist or oppressor and oppressed political traps in the name of anti-brahminism or anti-vedism propaganda.
The next time when you are asked same question tell them in India hindus and Buddhist merged.
Cunningham was British military engineer. But he was architect as well. Most of the buddhist sites like Bodh gaya, sarnath, kushinagar and lumbini were excavated by him.
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar), Indian Jurist, Statesman, Economist and Architect of Constitution of India, revived Buddhism in India when half a million of his followers took dhamma diksha at Nagpur, India, in October 1956.
Namo Buddhay, Jai Bhim 💙
Buddhism decayed primarily for 2 reason in india.
1. Islamic invasion in 10th century.
2. Hinduism absorbed Buddhism as a segment of its vast philosophical thoughts.
Thank God Buddhism and it's Non Violence was decimated by Adi Shankara in India. Otherwise India would have been converted to Islam . Hindus took weapons to defend themselves. Also for any King,Non violent religion is Dangerous. Where will the Army come from?? Vedas have always kept Kshatriyas as important part of Society. Buddhism due to its non Violence approach , was bound to fail.
perhaps another reason may be that buddha as such did not say much that was not already known, examined and kept aside... when buddha came on the scene, bharat was in a severe decline spiritually and there was a vacuum. plus buddha was a prince preaching down to the masses and not debating with scholars and it caught on fast.
but soon, buddhism needed to talk to scholars from other streams and soon enough interpretations of what buddha said needed to be made. but to be fair to buddhism, it was ready to do so, and thus came into being the various paths like sautrantika, vaibhashika, vijnanavada, sunyavada, and a collation of many or all of the above then some into tibetan buddhism.
buddhism failed in india when it could not win the debates with non dualists.
buddhists were holding their own or trying well with the dualists like nyaya vaiseshika, dualists vedantins, yoga, jains etc. most of them had their own dualistic interpretation of the upanishads. but the non dualistic vedanta in its pure form was revived by Adi Sankara and then buddhism simply crumbled in the debates with the the non dualist vedantis.
the path of buddhism that is nearest to non dual vedanta might be tibetan buddhism, which incorporated many thoughts of buddhism like theravada, vijnanvada, shoonyavada etc... it comes close, but it still hesitates to take the crucial last step becuase then ti will stop being buddhism and become non dual adviata vedanta.
this could be the major reason for decline of buddhism in india.
i object to the usage of the word decay. it is not a decay, it is a decline.
advaita vedantists dont disrespect or reject buddhism.. they use the thoughts of the schools like vijnanavada , shoonyavada etc as stepping stones to the final destination which is non dual advaita...
We are trying to find our righteous dharmic path.
That's what matters.
Our buddhist past still lives on with us through tantra and our sadhana techniques.
Scientific pursuit too is just also a way of following dharma in my opinion. That's why so many of us from the Dharmic fold( Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain) excel in the fields of academics, especially mathematics, science and languages.
Tantra originally comes from Shaivism - one of the oldest Hindu spiritual paths - probably thousands of years older than Buddhism
tantra comes from vigyan bhairav tantra (shaivism) not from buddhism
Your are full in delusion
👍👌🙏🙏 Rinpoche Guru touched my cords. As a Sanatani we worship Buddha and have his idol in our local temple. I think Buddhism again became a part of Sanatani Dharma 🙏🙏
Final conclusion: Buddhism is subset of Hinduism...
Buddhism was never a different religion in Bharat.Buddhism is one more Sampraday/part of Sanatan Dharma.🙏🏼🚩
Yup , his last statement very well relate with the growth of neo buddhist movement in Indian urban soceity or Zen Buddhism in the form of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism of Diasoku Ikeda .....My whole paternal family except few members are its lifetiy members ...But their philosophy is only 30% of original Buddhist philosophy ...Their book & their teachings doesnt have many of Gautam Buddha's teachings or original buddhist teachings
I don’t know what the reason but still teaching of budha is still very much there in every indian .We subscribe to all ideas common in both but try to think deeply on differences.
We call ourselves hindu bcoz other dont subscribe to the idea of having a way of life with beliefs and without calling it religion.
Early days budhism used to be considered as SECT in hindu or indian culture but now it is considered as different religion with many things in common with differences but no hate.
Why nobody's talking about Islamic invasions?? Invasions were the prime factors which caused decline of Buddhism.. I am from Bangladesh which is a 90% Muslim country , but during ancient times, the region was predominantly a Buddhist one.. In Afghanistan, Taliban destroyed the bamiyan budhha.. Hinduism and Buddhism are so similar that Buddhism gradually merged into Hinduism.. Buddhism didn't really decline in India.. Number of "Buddhists" did.. We Hindus still respect and practice buddhism
Santhan Dharm (including Hinduism, Buddism, Jainism and Sikhism) says that no one is prone to get eternal suffering or eternal bliss for for thier life choices.
I think it's Totally a wrong question if it means Buddha Dharma declined in india .. actually in india ( Bharat ) Their were so many ways to realise self or called Buddha so it was just one way among other many ways to self realisation which we today call as Buddhism ..
India had many many ways to self realisation so it was just a part of it as one method only ..
In the 1990s in the south Indian state of Kerala, there were 92 people who were associated with Buddhism, but today unofficially there are more than 1 lakh. In my district, in a small way, a Dhamma class under the leadership of Triratna Bouddha Maha Sangh is being implemented..there are about 15 people. But they all come with fear..
In recent caste census of Bihar population of Buddhist is more than Jain, however the real population is quite more than it, Buddhism is growing at a very high rate in India
@@max-cs9ko Yes but they are in a lot of financial difficulties..they don't have much space in the commercial trade sector or land allocation..totally few people who get government jobs but they also have less availability of the above and are mostly suffocated by bank loans..
Buddhism is nothing more than extension of Upanishads & bhrahmasutras & Sankhya philosophy of Hinduism. I have a great respect & love for Buddha teaching same strong ideas with different flavour.
He is absolutely right. There is no practical Hinduism or Buddhism or Jainisms. These terms are created by outsiders who are clueless about the great Sanatanah. These are nothing but only the branches of a single tree.
All 4 Indian religions are supposed to be a way of living, it was not supposed to be idol worshipping.
He’s totally wrong abt the number of gods. We have abt 22-33 KINDS of gods or should i call them enhanced or powerful enlightened beings. There are classes and types which will help you or you can invoke them for particular issues or stages in life. We know and believe in 1 god only and in 1 ultimate god. Everything and every other kind is a form or “ansh” of this god or someone who has mastery over a particular aspect of god or his particular power. In the end and beginning and at the top of it all, we Indians totally believe in 1 god only!
Destruction of Buddhist universities by Islamic invaders led to the decline of Buddhist ideas. Both Hindu and Buddhist ideas are Dharmic.
Adwaita and Buddhist ideas are quite similar. Adi Shankaracharya, the chief revivalist of Adwaita philosophy is called as Hidden Buddhist.
Dwaita became more popular than Advaita in India. Even today, Hindu temples are hugely popular
@@mlg1279 Adwaita refers to Dwaita of Samkhya philosophy and not Dwaita of Madhavacharya.
Anyone who has read Sankara advaita knows how different it is from buddhism. Advaitins give a strong emphasis on self
@@antiabrahamicreligion Adi Shankara was called Prachhanna Buddha, the hidden Buddhist. Both Vedanta and Buddhist Darshanas are great.
@@indiapakistanfriends7453 the person who called him prachanna buddha was a dualist vaishnavite(madhavacarya) cuz he couldn't understand philosophy of Sankara 🤣
Buddha is One of Dasha Avatara from Hinduism. So, Buddha's teachings are just another "branch" or addition to what existed. Could it be that Buddhism or better said Buddha's teachings or his experience & technique he offered to end suffering was challenging the strong caste system of that time & it was not in the interest of the elites that such a technique would be spread among lower casts specially & empower them? that would make sense that higher cast like Brahmin would not be at all interested in such a movement growing because socially it could mean big changes.
Prove it, if Shakyamuni is 10th avatar of Hindu God.
You can also say Jesus Christ is son of Hindu God Bramha.
It is nothing but Hindu Brahmin fabricated story.
"Mass genocide of Buddhist by Hindu extremist " , lmao go and read history kid , and come back when you can pronounce Sanskrit words correctly, you are outsider , don't try to become insider
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@@tantrichill192 Same goes with buddhism, There is no man named Buddha. its just a fabricated story by some greedy so called monks, they just repackaged and twisted the vedic hindu Philosophies and created a cult. Prove me wrong
first thing no big Buddhist monastery survive in India which can give recode how people view Buddhism.
I am Indian Buddhist. People love Hinduism more than anything else. So many people did cultural revival.
My ancestors were Hindus, then they converted to Buddhism.
Interesting take on how the diversity of deities is too appealing for Sanatanis to consider switching to more austere Buddhism. Also interesting comment about the contemporary mindfulness stuff as being "shallow Buddhism."
For me the greater appeal of Advaita Vedanta is the recognition that only purusha (spirit) is real. That makes more sense to me than the Buddhist anatta teachings. However, I have heard that the Buddhist "not-self" concept has arisen through misinterpretation of the original texts, and that Buddha actually didn't teach that idea.
What are your sources?
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Advaita Vedanta source material is the Vedas. The misinterpretation of Buddhist texts idea is propounded by Ken Wheeler, who has a RUclips channel called Theoria Apophasis.
Mindfulness practices have become shallow today, there is no doubt about it. What the Satipatthana practices refer to are no way what the modernized mindfulness practices refer to.
The minute we get into one-upmanship of which philosophy is better or which borrowed from what, we have lost the plot
@@pietwandelaar1743 trust some westerners to throw a spanner by means of "misinterpretations" one can theorize whatever they want to.. take it with a bucket of salt
Jai Adi Shankara
Har Har Mahadev
An Indian Hindu.
To be honest, most of India sees the Buddha-the ninth incarnation of Lord Vishu-as a god unto himself, and we enjoy applying his teachings to our daily lives. When I first asked my grandmother what Buddhism was, she told me that it was a sister religion to Hinduism. Although the names are different, the core principles are the same-love, respect, and the belief that everyone can learn from everyone.
I don't understand how Hinduism and Buddhism is different. Since childhood I have been visiting both hindu and Buddhist temples with my mother in the village on various occasions.
Sanatana Dharma = Hinduism + Buddhism + Jainism + Sikhism
I don't understand why the WEST or the people living OUTSIDE India, Nepal, Bhutan, Srilanka & other Asian countries present it like a different religion.
I don't understand why the WEST see it as different religion.
Our core values were always same or you could say, you can easily see similarities between all the above mentioned religions.
You can see culture similarities, language similarities, mantra and shloka similarities, and the region where everything is originated is also same. I mean you can see it is somehow related to each other.
You can easily find similarities in all the holy books of these above mentioned religions. The common thing found in all these holy books is to promote peace, protect the weak, help everyone, respect your teachers and elders respect the nature, animals and humanity.
Sanatana Dharma is not a religion. It's a way of living life. Different texts give different lists of the duties, but in general sanatana dharma consists of virtues such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings, purity, goodwill, mercy, patience, forbearance, self-restraint, generosity, and asceticism.
There are many ways to get moksha, mukti, samsara ( liberation from the cycle of Death and Rebirth ).
Just like "Siddhartha or Gautam Buddha also known as Shakyamuni" followed one of many methods of Sanatana Dharma to get out from the cycle of Reincarnation. People those who followed him were called boddhis. When their strength or number of followers practicing the same method increased.
The West started calling them Buddhism.
Same thing happened with the other religion as well.
People living In this region that we call south asia, worship all the gods and goddesses found in Sanatana Dharma. But we do also have a family god / godess or guardian that we worship on special occasions. ( Kul Dev / Kul Devi / Isht Dev / Ishta Devata)
Let's make a Hypothetical situation with an example what Western Countries did:
My family god is shiva and my friends family god is Vishnu and someone else family god might be durga maa.
We live in a community where my whole community is of 100 people who worship shiva.
After 500 years the community population increased to 100k ( 1 lacs ) so will people start calling us Shivaism, Vishnuism and Durgaism?
We are always and will be forever be called the people who follow "Sanatana Dharma".
No matter what you call yourself today, the roots will always tell you what fruit you will bear.
That's it.
Jai shree Ram
Jai shree krishna
Jai shree Buddha
Jai shree Adinath
Jai shree Mahavira
Jai shree Waheguru
We are following the principle that were taught to us. We are following our Dharma. Not the today's meaning of Dharma (religion) but spiritual dharma ( Kartavya - duties, commitment, role, responsibility, obligations).
And yeah! Not only we worship gods, we also worship humans (parents, teachers & elders) animals, trees, mountains, rivers, sun, moon, planets, stars and Universe.
After all, sound of the Universe is Om, Aum, 🕉️.
Scientifically proven.
Sanatana Dharma is not a religion. I'm saying this because a religion is always with a founder concept (a human figure). Sanatana Dharma does not have a founder. Nobody knows when and who started it. Only thing we know it is the oldest. We follow the teachings that was provided to us in Bhagwat Geeta, Ramayan, Mahabharat and the 4 Vedas and Upnishad.
You will find people practice multiple concepts in Sanatana Dharma.
In Sanatana Dharma :-
- people those who believe in multiple gods.
- people those who believe in single god.
- people those who believe there is no god.
- people those who believe god is male.
- people those who believe god is female.
- people those who believe god is both half male and half female.
- people those who believe in no god but understands the Universe follows the concept of karma and dharma. Everything is depended on the actions you took in your past life, that will affect your present and decide your future life.
- people those who believe in no god but there is a supreme being that is guiding & protecting everything.
In the End, We All are the followers of Sanatana Dharma.
Let me clear your confusion.
Sanatan dharma is only Hinduism .
The word Sanatan refers - A religion which has no founder or important person.
All religions have founders or main person ex:- buddha in Buddhism, mahavir in Jainism,guru nanak in sikhism ,mohammad in islam ,jesus in Christianity..
But Hinduism has no any founder not even main person .it is updated time to time specially by rishis( real bramhins) ,Avtars of god ,saints etc.
Hinduism is a dharma which consists of almost all types of phylosophies including science, mathematics, spirituality, astrology etc.etc.
Problem is that people doesn't like Hindu word and almost all buddhist are hindu haters .. that's why instead of using hindu we use Santan dharma .and tells them u r also part of our Santan dharma.. indirectly we say Hindu hi tumhare bapp hai😂
@@praful4383 No, Sanatan means Eternal.... not no founder
Stop misleading, hinduism is not a part of sanatan dharma , Hinduism is sanatan dharma , these buddhist, and shikhs are the ignorant groups with their half baked knowledge and greediness they have made seprate cult with certain founder
You don't understand the basic thing. Buddhism flourished and will flourish in India and Nepal became Hindu believes Buddha a 9th incarnation of Hindu God Vishnu. West sees the difference, but we don't.
Still, this doesn't explain why Jainism still survives in India as a significant minority (lot of very affluent businessmen are Jains).
Let me answer this question and also correct some loose talk by the Rinpoche,
1. In India "Hinduism" is defined as every practice that is NOT Abrahamic i.e. islamic, christian or Parsi. In short, Buddhism, Jainism , Hinduism, Sikhi etc. ALL come under "Hinduism".
2. Hinduism does not have a Million "gods", that is a Abrahamic mistranslation and misunderstanding of Hindu scripture and practices.
3. Gaya is one of the most important pilgrimage towns in India which is why Buddha himself went to Gaya. It was not "discovered" by the british, it was always known as Mahabodhi. British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham did dig up the Ashokan age temple with the seat after reading about it in Buddhist literature and knowing its location.
4. Current day muslims in the Indian subcontinent are the original Buddhists who were forcibly converted to Islam. Since they did not have any social construct of Jaati (caste) to prevent their conversion, they were the first victims. Hindu philosophy was always to FIGHT for dharma (karma) and not avoid confrontation like Buddhists.
5. In short Buddhism = Hinduism. Buddhism is just another panth (school) of Hinduism. Hinduism as very many schools.
6. Most Hindus know this, its only Buddhists who want to see themselves as "separate" to establish some sense of Superiority who deny this and has internalized this denial. As the Rinpoche said, the older buddhis monks already know this to be true since they don't care much for political correctness.
jainism survived bcs they live with sindhi,punjabi groups easily. jains wont have any problem bcs they typically socialise with hindus more. budhist dont have a good chance bcs of many reasons, 1st is many budhist eat meat, its against budhist teachings but they are asian so they cant leave it completely. another is andh ambaedkrites are using budhism as political tool, so normal hindu person gets irritated with these andh ambaedkrites who are spreading hinduphobia. and other major factor is many christian missionaries are mass convverting budhist through cash incentives, these budhist gets lured easily bcs they originally have low belonging of materialstic thing in moral but in this current period the new generations are lured for west citizenship ,abrahamic stamp,and getting a taste of materialistic hunger. new gens dont see being less materialistic as a good sign of survival so they convert for reservations,cash, and christian missionaries knows it.
Jainism was declared a religion independent of Hinduism around 10 years ago by the then Congress government.@@odomangulati7079
It's happened bcz in Bharat and as a sanatani(hindu) we didn't think Hinduism and Buddhism is different religion.
The actual reason for this is the way the Vedas was interpreted by Buddha. Until 1000 years ago, Jainism and Buddhism was popular amongst kings and masses, cause the vedic rituals of animal sacrifice and sacrifice during prayer and yagna was seen as cruel and barbaric and people were moving away from Sanatana Dharma in the hope for find a non violent equivalent of the path. However, this is where Adi Shankara came in to the scene, and with his Bakthi movement, reinterpreted the vedic rituals to be much more representative than actual, aka, use of kumkum in place of blood etc. and help spread work of advaitham, aka thou art God, God is within. With this there was a literal revival of Hinduism amongst kings and general population, which led a reconversion of population back to practicing Sanatana Dharma from Jainism and Buddhism.
Source : trust me bro
What a whole lotta nonsense. 😂 Vedas weren’t even in existence during Buddhas period. Read Shunyata and Vedanta together, you’ll know Shankar stole the works of Buddha and Nagarjuna. Tweaking bit making Atma fixed. If Atma is changing your entire Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu will perish. 😂 don’t just read from WhatsApp kid
@acho5424 Earliest written Vedic texts were c. 800 BCE, oral transmission of content long before that.
Gautama Buddha (c. 400 - 500 BCE)
@@acho5424 no brother, rig veda is about 1500 bc or older, but ironically none of the gods the modern neo-hindus pray to exist in there except for maybe Indra. And the vedic religion relates more to ancient Iranian avesta than current hinduism(which is often weaponised for politics). Ofc, older does not mean better. Buddha himself was born in a Vedic royal family, that’s why upon seeing that it was not helping anyone be any better he sought the end to suffering and showed the path.
@@acho5424dude you call other people WhatsApp. But you yourself seem to be whatsapp. When budha came, there was no Vedas 😂. Common man, Rigveda has been found to be more than 5000 years old. It is the oldest text in the human history.
The only reason was that Hinduism philosophy is just better than Buddhism, and don't forget Bhuddha and his disciples were also Hindu! also At that time, Hindu extremism lead to grow Buddhism and Jainism. btw thanks for sharing your perspective sir.
Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, China, Malaysia, Indonesia were Budhist countries and Budhism is disappeard completely from them because of muslim extremism. Thanks to Kind Hindus the jews, persians, Jains, Sikhs, Budhists, Christians, Bohra can still live happily in India.
Watch #hamaraateet n #sciencejourney then you know the truth😂
@@amandmx lol,😂😂 what you mean by know the truth? The channels you have suggested are full propoganda channels with no authenticity. If you want to know the truth, read authentic books, not some propoganda videos.
@@Savitroooi really feel sad for these neo buddhists who claim that every temple was once a buddhist structure every ancient Hindu idol was of Buddha and what not
I hope they soon come out of their ignorance
@@amandmxi pray you come to know the truth soon buddy
It is not just Buddhism, entire code of Morality, decency , honesty has deteriorated in India.
Thank the is-lamic invasions and colonialism
@@mlg1279 It is easy to blame others, but we had 80 years , what did we do to improve.
@@ahirbhairavorai7793 The first 50 years were wasted in is-lamizing the country. We should have instead laid the foundation of a dharmic India - teaching dharmic morals and ethics.
@@ahirbhairavorai7793 1000 years destroyed the knowledge you want 80 years to compensate that? and who is going to enforce morality? its not a monarchy anymore its a dumb democracy, even if someone comes with a good law dumb majority will throw it in the trash.
Two reasons
1) Revival of Hinduism by Adi Shankaracharya
2) Islamic Invasions
Blaming others is easy. Non violence principles of Buddhist people prevented them from self protection. Example is Afghanistan
Buddhism is a branch of Sanatan Dharmma which includes Hinduism, Budhism, Jainism & Sikhism.. Hinduism is a cluster of various schools of thoughts such as dwaitha, adwaitha, saiva, vaishnava, tantra, Ganapatya, shakteya, sankhya, yog etc. etc... Hindus consider Buddha as 9th incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
Sanatan dharma is the father of all Bharat born religions be it Buddhism, Jainism or Sikhism. So people should always respect their father, their basic roots and foundation.
Becoz buddism is not community. It is group of Sants and monks who truly walk on way of buddha.
Buddhism is one of precious treasure of Bharat (India) along with Sikhism and Jainism. All of these are prosperous religions in the world itself and this is evident to all. India has kept protection for all its treasures from ancient times. We have seen invaders together and still coexist all together to maintain the peace and prosperity in real manner. We are known for our trust level historically.
It doesn't matter whether Indians are buddhist or Hindus because the underlaying principles and philosophy of both religion is almost same
Although Hinduism and Buddhism have competition but Hindu are not that destructive... The real reason was Islamic invasion that Buddhism wasn't able to survive at all. There was a big blood bath of monks and monarchies where they were destroyed.. justice is still pending for those whose monks lost their lives in places like Nalanda and so on. History is very very brutal .
If this is a Buddhist monk, he is then no different than a Hindu Rishi. It is so pleasant and refreshing to know that a Buddhist is not in competetion with anybody, they are but in competetion within his own self, own mind for betterment or realization. Hindus should re-learn this and get back to their Sanatan way of thinking and be happy within. God bless this man, his presence is healing.
As a Jain, let me answer this question in simpler way.
As we all know "Sanatan Sanskriti" (the main mother of indic religions) has 2 paths 1st Shraman Sanskriti (Jainism & Bhudhism) & 2nd Vedic Sanskriti (Hinduism)
Now there was a time when Shraman Sanskriti (Jainism & Bhudhism) was prominent in Indian subcontinent, but then came Aadi Shankaracharya ji (a Vedic Sanskriti guru) who by all means did everything to spread the 2nd Stream of sanatan (Vedic Sanskriti aka Hindusim), due to which Jainism & Bhudhism started decreasing in the subconscious.
I hope it answers your questions.