In the Journey to the West, it is told that tang monks and disciples went to the Western Heavens to learn the scriptures, of which the Western Heavens are now India, and India has always been considered the origin of Buddhism. Buddhism was founded in the 5th century BC by Shakyamuni Shakyamuni, a prince named Kapilavan, which is now located in Nepal.
Although Buddhism originated in ancient India, Indians themselves have long ceased to believe, India is a religious country, almost everyone has religious beliefs, while Buddhists account for only 0.7%, most of them still believe in Hinduism and Islam.
To interject here, because Hinduism and Islamic teachings are incompatible or even opposing, Islam believes that everyone is equal and "all Muslims are brothers", but Hinduism has a strict caste system; It may also be that Hinduism regards cattle as gods, while Islam loves beef, as evidenced by the Lanzhou beef noodles on the streets.
Due to the large-scale conflict between the Hindu and Islamic factions, in the early days of the establishment of the Indian state in 1947, India with Hinduism as the main body and Pakistan with Islam as the main body became independent, and Pakistan was located at both ends of India, and finally East Pakistan also established an independent state, which is now Bangladesh.
Far from it, back to the original topic, Buddhism is still one of the four major religions in the world, why is there almost no one to believe in India, where it originated?
Speaking of Buddhism, it is necessary to mention Brahmanism (the predecessor of Hinduism), Brahmanism, with the caste system as the core doctrine, was created by the Aryans who invaded civilizations from abroad to facilitate the rule of the local indigenous majority by a minority.
On the one hand, through the caste system, people are divided into 4 levels, namely Brahman, Shaktili, Vedas, and Sudra; On the one hand, it also preaches that karmic reincarnation allows the lower classes to endure and cultivate future lives.
With the development of society, Buddhism arose on the basis of criticizing and absorbing and transforming the teachings of Brahmanism, unlike Brahmanism, Buddhism emphasizes cause and effect rather than immutable. Buddhism was originally only popular in the Ganges Valley region of Central India. During the Peacock Dynasty (similar to the Qin Dynasty), Ashoka took Buddhism as the state religion and vigorously promoted it, and since then Buddhism has spread through many parts of the South Asian subcontinent, finally making Buddhism a world religion.
At the beginning of the 13th century, Buddhism disappeared in India? Buddhism in India has gone through the dates of Buddhism, the Mahayana Period, and the Tantric Period. In the 8th and 9th centuries, with the major theoretical development of Hinduism, Indian Buddhism was gradually absorbed and replaced by Hinduism, and at the end of the 12th century, due to the islamic conquest of India, all Buddhist temples were swept away, and Buddhism has disappeared in India since then.
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Since then, Islam has become the mainstream religion in India? Obviously not, as mentioned earlier, it is Hinduism that persists to the end, and today it is close to 80% of Indians who believe in it. It was not until the end of the 19th century that Buddhism was revived and rebuilt in India, and there are currently nearly 10 million people who believe in it.
"The history of India is that there is no history, and the history of India is a history that is constantly ruled by invaders." This is the fundamental reason for the disappearance of Indian Buddhism for a time, and it is also the reason for the rupture of ancient Indian civilization. This sentence was not what I said, it was Marx who said it.
Finally, a photo of India's domestic aircraft carrier, which is a symbol of comprehensive national strength, and India became a nuclear power in 1998.
India's domestic aircraft carrier "Vikrant"