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How can there be no Buddhism in India!
However, Buddhism accounts for a very small proportion of the Indian faith, according to statistics, the Indian population, Hindus account for about 82, and Muslims believe in Islam about 12. Buddhism only belongs to the remaining 6, and even these 6 are not all Buddhists, and there are many other sects among them.
But the decline of Buddhism in India is a fact. In the late seventh century AD, Buddhism was gradually declining in India, and Hinduism absorbed Buddhist theories to fill his shortcomings, so he rose to prominence in a new way. After the eighth century, important thinkers emerged in the Hindu system, which perfected the religious and philosophical theories of Hinduism.
One rises, the other falls. Eventually, due to the invasion of Islam, which destroyed and looted Buddhist monasteries on a large scale and forced many Buddhists to convert, Indian Buddhism eventually almost died out in India by the 13th century.
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Now there are many people in India who practice Buddhism, and they are all being transmitted back in China.
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As we all know, Buddhism originated in ancient India, but it did not prevail in India, "Journey to the West" in the West Heaven Sutra, in which "West Heaven" refers to ancient India, but now India no one believes in Buddhism, but believes in Hinduism, both religions are emerging from India, but they are indeed two opposing religions.
Buddhism originated around the 6th century, and Buddhism arose because of the reflection on Brahmanism, and Buddhism put forward some thoughts on Hinduism, in fact, it also put forward an opposition to Brahmanism and the Hinduism that arose from him.
One can see that Buddhism has reflected on some of the shortcomings of Brahmanism and corrected them, but Brahmanism has an unshakable position in the hearts of Indians, and it is deeply ingrained in their hearts, and Buddhism is undoubtedly unsuccessful in trying to challenge authority! Even when Buddhism was at its most developed in India, only one-fifth of Indians believed in Buddhism. The real reason is that Buddhism is contrary to the living habits and national customs and beliefs of the Indians, which is also the real reason why it cannot be accepted by the majority of Indians.
The struggle between Hinduism and Buddhism has never stopped, but most of it was Hinduism that prevailed, and by the 19th century, only two percent of the people in India believed in Buddhism. On the contrary, Buddhism spread to China and parts of Southeast Asia, but it was very popular with everyone. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism entered China and has become an inseparable part of the Chinese national culture after thousands of years of development.
Chinese Buddhism modified Indian Buddhism and later spread to other countries. Although India is the origin of Buddhism, it is China that has carried Buddhism forward.
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Buddhism originated in the ancient Indian kingdom of Kapila, in present-day Nepal. Ancient India is different from India, which includes the regions of present-day India, Nepal, Pakistan, Keshimir, etc.
- In ancient times, Buddhism flourished in India, and it flourished. Orchid. The country, the war, defeated Indian Buddhism, they are relatively strong, there is no inclusiveness, so that the locals believe in it, and then India put the faith of Islam and Lan to the side, which is now Pakistan.
Now Buddhism in India is all passed back to the past. A few years after Tang Seng came back from learning the scriptures, they went to war!
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Buddhism originated in the present-day Nepal region, Buddhism now has little influence in India, Indians believe more in Hinduism, Hinduism is non-Buddhist, the god of Buddhism is Shakyamuni, and the god of Hinduism is Shiva.
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