Genocide of buddhists by brahmin hindus in ancient india

[sathish]

The Mourya dynasty was ended by killing it's last king Brihadratha, by his general pushyamitra shunga a brahmin.

Brahmins always ensured their top spot, by aligning themselves with the ruler, and by suppressing others.

Buddhism travelled across the borders and still surviving on many parts of the world, but hinduism failed to do so. Buddhism talks about peace and kindness. In Hinduism the holy book gita was delivered to a person who is hesitant in the battlefield to kill his kins, and convinced him to kill them. The choice is obvious.

Education was denied to many, and the majority were kept in dark without education for hundreds of years in the name of varna. Though the British oppressed us, we cannot deny that they provided some of the rights which was denied by the elite classes to the lower caste people.

When Travancore denied medical seat for padmanabhan pulpu an ezhava student, in the name of hindu dharma, he got a seat in madras rajdhani.

 

[nang2]

As far as I know, God wasn't even the central concept in Buddhist philosophy. So basically it's 'He taught is disciples his way of attaining nirvana/moksha'. He observed that any human goes through a lot of suffering and wanted to find a solution to that. He came to the conclusion that desire is the root cause for all suffering. When he attained enlightenment, Siddhartha Gautama came to be referred to as Lord Buddha or the 'Enlightened One'. There's no mention of God in the Four Noble Truths nor in the Noble Eightfold Path which is the way to attain nirvana/moksha.

@Buddhistforlife correct me if I'm wrong anywhere.

Agree to this.


Some say he had converted to Buddhism before the Kalinga war.

From Wiki:
On the other hand, the Sri Lankan tradition suggests that Ashoka was already a devoted Buddhist by his 8th regnal year, having converted to Buddhism during his 4th regnal year, and having constructed 84,000 viharas during his 5th–7th regnal years.[92] The Buddhist legends make no mention of the Kalinga campaign.[94]

Based on Sri Lankan tradition, some scholars – such as Eggermont – believe that Ashoka converted to Buddhism before the Kalinga war.[95] Critics of this theory argue that if Ashoka was already a Buddhist, he would not have waged the violent Kalinga War. Eggermont explains this anamoly by theorising that Ashoka had his own interpretation of the "Middle Way".[96]

My imperfect Buddhism knowledge tells me that Buddhism also talks about God. It just uses a much longer word for it: anuttarā samyak sambodhi.