paritosh
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Wikipedia is irrelevant. There's not any references for that even.
But I found this quote from Huen Tsang, when he entered into Bharat proper from the Northwest.
"the people are accustomed to a life of ease and prosperity and they like to sing. However they are weak-minded and cowardly, and they are given to deceit and treachery. In their relations with each other there is much trickery and little courtesy. These people are small in size and unpredictable in their movements"
Hsüan Tsang Biography | BookRags.com
Not much has changed Huan, trust me
So I concede Huan Tsang did visit India, but I do not concede that Buddhism developed in India, despite claims to the contrary. The spread of Buddhism was via the Silk Route.
Buddhism spread from Afghanistan and Pakistan along the Silk Route, while Bihar experienced a temporary resurgence of Buddhism in the 7th century. But it was Mahayana Buddhism and this did not originate in India. This developed in Afghanistan and Pakistan and somehow found its way to Bihar many centuries later.
I am pretty sure those quoted lines were the sole reason you bought the book....
who made you a think-tank?trolling in your own thread...now that your topic has been factually slammed.