Why did the Buddhist civilization in the Western Regions, which lasted for thousands of years, die?

Let's talk about my conjecture, first, the Western Regions is an important place on the Silk Road, when the Silk Road is opened, the business community is open to each other, the people of the Western Regions are scattered around, the prosperity of the past is not there, and the development is becoming more and more decayed, instead of trying to survive in their own homes, because of the renewal of the times and gradually disappearing.

Second, because of a cholera, when we look at history, we can see that a war can wipe out a country and establish a new state and dynasty, if the Western Regions disappear because of a war, it is very normal for the winner to rewrite history and wipe out everything that once was.

Third, because the natural environment is very bad, when we watch the TV series Ghost Blowing the Lantern, we can find that the exquisite ancient desert in the Western Regions covers a very large area, and the weather is hot and there is a shortage of hot water resources, because of a natural disaster, the people gradually died, and the civilization of the Buddha Kingdom in the Western Regions was also buried by dust.

Fourth, disease. In ancient times, the level of medical care was not developed, and if someone got some contagious diseases, they would not have the consciousness of seeing a doctor, but would go to the gods and worship the Buddha to keep them safe, so a plague or infectious disease could also cause the whole country to die.

In the course of human history, excellent history and culture often disappear in the long river of history along with various factors. For the thousand-year-old disappearance of the Buddhist civilization in the Western Regions, it is a typical example.

On the one hand, from the perspective of the environment, because it is located in the Western Regions, far away from the ocean, its natural ecological environment is relatively fragile, and the arid climate environment makes the original fragile ecological environment more fragile.

On the other hand, from an artificial point of view, with the continuous development of Buddhist civilization, a large number of people have naturally been generated, and the rapid increase in population has increasingly imposed on nature, which eventually led to the prosperity of Buddhist civilization, but the sacrifice is the price of nature, and the ecological carrying capacity has undergone qualitative changes, which can be said to be the main reason for the demise of Buddhist civilization. Therefore, we must look at this issue dialectically in order to have a correct understanding.

First of all, the reason for the disappearance of the Buddhist civilization in the Western Regions, which lasted for thousands of years, is different, and some people say that it disappeared because of geological changes, as if the dinosaur civilization suddenly disappeared in the Jurassic era. But the real reason is still undecipherable by archaeologists and scientists, and can only be silently speculated by the descendants who left the world.

The ancient civilization of the Western Regions mainly originated in ancient India, but the disappearance of ancient India became the region of Nepal today. But why it disappeared is still like many mysteries, and there is no way to unravel. It's just that I think this may also be a kind of natural reason, and sometimes a culture can't flourish in a certain place forever.

It will eventually change to a world religion as the world changes. But I still believe that with the discovery of scientific research and archaeology, this mystery will eventually continue to ignore that layer of fog, just like the ancient country of Loulan at the beginning, its veil will be constantly experienced by us in a certain place to truly explore another secret of it.

First of all, since ancient times, the countries of the Western Regions have always been the intersection of the civilization of the Central Plains, the civilization from the Persian and Arab worlds and the early civilization of Europe.

The civilizations from Europe are mainly Greece and other Mediterranean countries, and the Central Plains civilization is the legacy of our Han and Tang dynasties. However, this area is also a battleground for soldiers, and the Central Plains has always wanted to swallow this treasure land, and Arab and Persian countries have also eyed it.

However, the countries of the Western Regions are not very united, and there are constant wars all year round, which forms a dual potential factor in the external and internal Buddhist civilization.

Secondly, the Western Regions is located along our Silk Road, where merchants are in an endless stream all year round, and it is a place like a crossroads, but it is a desert with constant wind and sand, and often faces the threat of water shortage and huge sandstorms.

Just as the splendid civilization of Guloulan gradually disappeared in the long river of history, the Buddhist civilization of the Western Regions, I think, it is difficult to preserve it completely under the influence of foreign civilizations and the devastation of war.

The Buddhist culture of the Western Regions has a long history of thousands of years, and Xuanzang sent envoys to the Western Regions to spread the culture of the Western Regions for him, but now it has disappeared, and only a few footprints remain.

First of all, wars and turmoil have been frequent in the western region since ancient times, and successive rulers of our country have also made great efforts to defend this, but the situation of war and turmoil still appears. Although the war of gunpowder can bring about the spread and follow-up of culture, it is more about the demise and destruction of the communicator. <>

The germination of Protestantism, the historical era is always accompanied by new things in the elimination of forging ahead, the reproduction of Protestantism also brought a huge blow to the Buddhist culture of the Western Regions, and at the same time, the internal chaos, new rulers constantly appeared to educate the people with new ideas, making many sects, and the original Buddhist culture of the Western Regions gradually faded out of people's field of vision.

The importance of the ruler, China's dynasties have always attached importance to ideological rule and education, the new ruler will inevitably bring about the destruction of the old things, the ruler of the Western Regions Buddhist culture with the frequent wars still pay less attention to it, and gradually drive out the people's thoughts, so it is related to the trend of the ruler times.

Since ancient times, the Western Regions has been a land of many countries and constant disputes, but there are dozens of countries on a small land, and some small countries are not as big as a county-level city in China. But it is also a land located in the center of the Eurasian continent, an important part of the Silk Road, and a center of cultural exchange between Eastern and Western countries. <>

Due to the large number of countries and the constant friction between countries, the regime changes in the countries of the Western Regions are often very frequent, and the birth and death of countries are also very frequent. This makes it difficult for some unique cultures in the Western Regions to be passed down for a long time and stably, and it is often difficult for the scattered Western Regions to resist invasion from the outside world.

Whether it was the Xiongnu or the Tang Dynasty, the leaderless states of the Western Regions could only be ruled when they encountered a powerful empire.

As a result of the turmoil and chaos in the Western Regions, some small countries with weak power could only be slowly annihilated by the long river of history, and even the belief in Buddha could not unite them, but some countries perished in the struggle between the imperial power and the clerical power.

Buddhism in the Western Regions is quite important in the history of Chinese Buddhism, located in the East-West transportation hub of the Western Regions not only played a special role in the early spread of Buddhism, but also in the long historical process of constantly absorbing the influence of various ethnic cultures, forming a very distinctive Western Regions Buddhist art, from the excavation of grottoes, the establishment of temples, to the first dance, painting and sculpture, etc., in many aspects have had a huge impact on Chinese Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. However, Buddhism itself, as a religious belief, eventually declined in the Western Regions.

Due to the lack of historical records, the history of Buddhism in the Western Regions is not easy to sort out, as He Changqun said in "Buddhism in the Western Regions: Translator's Preface": "The countries of the Western Regions, like ancient India, have no historical records left, only some records in the documents of China and ancient Greece, the foreign biography of the official history of China and the travelogues of monks and monks who traveled west to seek Dharma in the Han, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Tang and Song dynasties, these official historical records and monks' deeds are cross-referenced with the newly discovered materials and relics in India, Central Asia and Xinjiang in the past hundred years. The history of the ancient Western Regions and the Buddhist activities in the Western Regions have gradually become clear. ”