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How many Chinese people are Buddhists?

I hope its not rude to ask. Are you a Buddhist?

Yes you are right Both of them had an incredible willpower. When Fahien reached eastern India where Buddha lived tears filled his eyes and he stated: "Buddha formerly lived here, I Fahien born at a time too late to meet Buddha can only gaze upon his traces."

Fahein who is also known as Faxian was a Chinese traveller who had come to India to visit the holy Buddhist places and to collect sacred works connected with the life and the teachings of the Buddha. He came here in the beginning of the 5th century A.D. He came to India by land and returned by...

The ancient and medieval Indians considered Central Asia a mleccha (barbarian) country and they thought that they get polluted if they enter Central Asia.

Well, its understandable that pakistanis are not interested in pre-muslim history. For example todays India flourished during the period of 6th to 13th century as it was ruled by at least 5 major Dynasties like the Pala Dynasty, Rashtrakuta Dynasty, Pratihara Dynasty, Chola Dynasty and Western...

Is it possible that the Indian Mathematician Shridhara of Bengal was a teacher at ancient Nalanda University

You are right. So I changed my first post

Thanks Anyway if you or someone else is interested in the history of ancient and medieval Indian mathematicians then you should read the book "Mathematical Achievements of Pre-modern Indian Mathematicians" which was written by T.K Puttaswamy. The book mentions all the great Indian mathematicians...

I would also include great Indian mathematicians like Hemachandra: Gujarat Madhava: Kerala Mahavira: Karnataka Sridhara: Bengal

So when did the dark age of India start. (Which century) What do you think?

There was a mathematician called Mahavira who lived in the 9th century in the Rashtrakuta Empire. I didn't mean Mahavira the propagator of jainism. I referred to the mathematician called Mahavira who lived in the 9th century in the Rashtrakuta Empire.

Islam arrived in todays northern India in 1192 after the death of Prithviraj. But I understand what you mean. The Muslims arrived in northern India after the end of the golden age of Persian mathematics (12th century) and thats the reason why there weren't any great muslim mathematicians in India.

Persia produced a lot of great muslim mathematicians like Al-Biruni, Al-Karaji, Būzjānī and many more but India didn't produce any great muslim mathematician. I don't know why. Perhaps someone else knows more about great muslim Indian mathematicians.

I am not really sure what you mean. Almost half of the mathematicians who were mentioned are Jains and not Hindus. Anyway there were a lot of great muslim Persian mathematicians in the past like Al-Bīrūnī who lived in Persia. But I don't know whether there were any great muslim...

Pingala Aryabhata: 5th century Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on mathematics and astronomy. His major work, Aryabhatiya, a compendium of mathematics and astronomy, was extensively referred to in the Indian mathematical literature and has survived to modern times. The mathematical...

Actually the Afghan army had the superior number and thats the reason why they were able to defeat the Maratha army. But the Marathas recovered after the battle of Panipat and reconquered the major part of northern India under Shinde and Madhavrao. I chose Shahu because he was a great ruler. He...

Top 9 Emperors of India: Chandragupta Maurya of the Maurya Empire: 4th century BC Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Empire: 3rd century BC Chandragupta Vikramaditya of the Gupta Empire: 5th century Harsha Vardhana: 7th century Amoghavarsha of the Rashtrakuta Empire: 9th century Dharmapala of the...