Hindu fanatics in India exterminated Buddhism from its birth place.
India used to be mostly Buddhist but now they are a minuscule minority. Over the course of a thousand years, almost all Buddhists in India have been forcibly converted to Hinduism or exterminated.
You guys are one to talk.
You got proof of that?
we consider Buddha as a avatar of vishnu in his ten avatars,why would we exterminate them?
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Hinduism nor buddhism never spread by sword unlike Islam did,
Sri Adi Sankaracharya used logical debates, if he lost he would become a buddhist and the winners disciple, if Sankaracharya won thelosing scholar should become his disciple, that were the rules ,that was how he converted buddhists.
Not by sword.
What hindu fanatics, it was muslims from arabia which finished the buddhist populations and kingdoms as they were not prepared to deal with such barbarians.
read history well, dont blame hindus for it,
infact siddhartha was a hindu prince who became buddha after enlightenment at bodh gaya, bihar.Why would hindus destroy those who they consider as avatar of lord vishnu?
Is This what they teach in pakistani education? lies, lies and more lies about India?
Muhammad bin Qasim[edit]
In AD 711,
Muhammad bin Qasim conquered the
Sindh, bringing Indian societies into contact with Islam, succeeding partly because
Dahir was an unpopular Hindu king that ruled over a
Buddhist majority and that
Chach of Alor and his kin were regarded as usurpers of the earlier Buddhist
Rai Dynasty.
[42][43] a view questioned by those who note the diffuse and blurred nature of Hindu and Buddhist practices in the region,
[44] especially that of the royalty to be patrons of both and those who believe that Chach himself may have been a Buddhist.
[45][46] The forces of Muhammad bin Qasim defeated
Raja Dahir in alliance with the
Jats and other regional governors.[
citation needed]
The
Chach Nama records many instances of conversion of stupas to mosques such as at
Nerun[47] as well as the incorporation of the religious elite into the ruling administration such as the allocation of 3% of the government revenue was allocated to the Brahmins.
[42] As a whole, the non-Muslim populations of conquered territories were treated as
People of the Book and granted the freedom to practice their respective faiths in return for payment of the poll tax (
jizya).
[42] They were then excused from military service or payment of the tax paid by Muslim subjects –
Zakat.
[48] The jizya enforced was a graded tax, being heaviest on the elite and lightest on the poor.
[48]
Mahmud of Ghazni[edit]
By the 10th century
Mahmud of Ghazni defeated the Hindu-
Shahis, effectively removing Hindu influence and ending Buddhist self-governance across Central Asia, as well as the
Punjab region. He demolished both stupas and temples during his numerous campaigns across North-Western India, but left those within his domains and
Afghanistan alone, even as
al-Biruni recorded Buddha as the prophet "
Burxan".
[49] However, many Buddhist sites destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni, such as
Mathura, show evidence of having been forcibly converted by Brahmanical rivals first.
[50]
Mahmud of Ghazni is said to have been an
iconoclast.
[51] Hindu and Buddhist statues, shrines and temples were looted and destroyed, and many Buddhists had to take refuge in Tibet.
[52]
Muhammad of Ghor[edit]
Muhammad attacked the north-western regions of the
Indian subcontinent many times. Gujarat later fell to Muhammad of Ghor's armies in 1197.
Muhammad of Ghor's army was too developed for the traditional Indian army of that time to resist.
[53]
In 1200
Muhammad Khilji, one of
Qutb-ud-Din's generals, conquered a fort of the
Sena army, such as the one at
Vikramshila. Many Buddhist monks fled to
Nepal, Tibet, and
South India to avoid the consequences of war.
[54]
The Buddhist encounters with Turkics are well documented. According to one myth, Chandrakirti (Nagarjuna's greatest disciple) rode a stone lion to scare away the Turkish army.
[55]
The Mongols[edit]
In 1215,
Genghis Khan conquered
Afghanistan and devastated the Muslim world. In 1227, after his death, his conquest was divided.
Chagatai then established the
Chagatai Khanate, where his son
Arghun made Buddhism the state religion. At the same time, he came down harshly on Islam and demolished mosques to build many stupas. He was succeeded by his brother, and then his son
Ghazan who converted to Islam and in 1295 changed the state religion. After his reign, and the splitting of the Chagatai Khanate, little mention of
Buddhism or the stupas built by the Mongols can be found in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
[56]
Timur (Tamarlane)[edit]
Timur was a 14th-century
warlord of
Turco-Mongol descent,
[57][58][59][60] conqueror of much of Western and central Asia, and founder of the
Timurid Empire.
Timur destroyed Buddhist establishments and raided areas in which Buddhism had flourished.
[61][62]
Theory of persecution by Muslims and conversion to Islam[edit]
According to this theory, by the time of the
Muslim conquests in India, there were only glimpses of Buddhism nor any evidence of a provincial government in control of the Buddhists.
[63] During the seventh to 13th centuries when Islam arrived, this theory claims that it replaced Buddhism as the great cosmopolitan trading religion in many places accompanied by a consolidation of the communal peasant religions of Hinduism.
[63] The Tibetan scholar of the 17th century Taranatha writes that during the time of the Sena king
Stag-gzigs (
Turks) had begun to appear on horses and that monasteries had been fortified with troops stationed in them; however, they were overrun and monks at Uddandapura were massacred, the monastery razed and replaced by a new fort and further north-east Vikramshila was destroyed as well.
[64] Hardly any contemporary evidence however exists on the destruction of Buddhist monasteries.
[63]
Ruins of
Vikramaśīla University
Brief Muslim accounts and the one eye witness account of Dharmasmavim in wake of the conquest during the 1230s talks about abandoned viharas being used as camps by the Turukshahs.
[63] Later historical traditions such as Taranathas are mixed with legendary materials and summarised as "the Turukshah conquered the whole of Magadha and destroyed many monasteries and did much damage at Nalanda, such that many monks fled abroad" thereby bringing about a sudden demise of Buddhism with their destruction of the Viharas.
[63] Buddhism lingered longer in Iran than South Asia and was officially professed under fifty years of Mongol conquest.
[63] With the conversion of Ghazan to Islam in 1295, the backlash resulted in the destruction of many Buddhist places of worship and the further migration of monks into Kashmir.
[63]
Many places were destroyed and renamed. For example, Udantpur's monasteries were destroyed in 1197 by Mohammed-bin-Bakhtiyar and the town was renamed.
[65] Taranatha in his
History of Buddhism in India (dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i chos bskor gyi byung khungs nyer mkho) of 1608,
[66] gives an account of the last few centuries of Buddhism, mainly in Eastern India. His account suggests a considerable decline but not an extinction of Buddhism in India in his time.[
citation needed]
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