Giant statue in India to honour an Ancient Pakistani from Swat (123 ft or 37.5 metres high)

[SIPRA]

Its a satanic invention overwhelmingly used by the tyrant kings and clergy

Well. Was used both ways, good as well as bad. All meditation and deeper introspection is not satanic. Mystics, of all religions and cultures, have been involved in it.

 

[El Sidd]

It's a hill top or group of hill tops.

What about the Koh i Suleiman?

 

[Sine Nomine]

What about the Koh i Suleiman?

Same as Takht e Suleiman,but i can't find mines here.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

To Indians Hinduism is an ethnicity .
And the entire region belongs to them by that reason.

The decline of Buddhism was ushered in by the Brahmanical Hindusim...so much so for the tolerant Hindus.


Needless to say for whatever reasons, Buddhism did decline and disappeared in India.

Historian S. R. Goyal has attributed the decline and disappearance of Buddhism from India to the hostility of the Brahmanas. An incident oft cited is the destruction of the Bo Tree and Buddhist images by Saivite King, Shashanka, persecution by Pusyamitra Sunga (185 BC to 151 BC) who detested the Law of the Buddha had set fire to the Sutras, destroyed Stupas, razed Samgharamas and massacred Bhikkus and even killed the deity of the Bodhi tree. There is also mention of the Huna onslaught on Taxila (in Pakistan), the persecution of Buddhist monks by Mihirkula.

https://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,10935,0,0,1,0#.XnoRMEAzbcs

 

[Mentee]

Well. Was used both ways, good as well as bad. All meditation and deeper introspection is not satanic. Mystics, of all religions and cultures, have been involved in it.

I was merely pointing out to the torture, not meditation

 

[TheGreatMaratha]

I would say meditation is an invention of the Indus Valley

Looking at the current people of Indus valley, I feel that this is highly doubtful. You should support your claim.

 

[JafarQureshi]

They still take pride in their Irish,English,German,French and Anglo-saxon ancestory.
PERIOD.

Very true. Hence we should also take pride in our Arab, Turko-Mongol, Persian, Afghan ancestors instead of trying to associate ourselves with this fake SouthAsian brotherhood.

 

[SIPRA]

I was merely pointing out to the torture, not meditation

Sorry, my misunderstanding.

 

[Mentee]

Wo to shayad pehlay bhi krtay hongay private schools. Insecure nhi but mujhay smjh nhi aati heritage ko own krnay ka Kya mtlab ha.

Apni zaat sy Sharminda na Hona ISI ko kehty embracing of own heritage

Sorry, my misunderstanding.

Koi bat nahi

 

[El Sidd]

Same as Takht e Suleiman,but i can't find mines here.

Oh there are mines there. Plenty.
Its not to be found by everyone for everyone.
No wonder people say is all mystical over there.

Wo to shayad pehlay bhi krtay hongay private schools. Insecure nhi but mujhay smjh nhi aati heritage ko own krnay ka Kya mtlab ha.

government schools se karwana chahte hain ye log. apko kia masla ha?

heritage ko own karna chahte hain.. rock n roll and yoga. paisa ka khel hai

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Jha’s new book, Against the Grain: Notes on Identity, Intolerance and History, is a collection of essays that, as he writes, “are addressed to the people vulnerable to the balderdash peddled by the Hindu Right.” In this essay, excerpted from the volume, he applies his characteristic combination of polemic and rigour to a greatly disregarded part of Indian history, and points to evidence that shatters the Hindutva notion of a pre-Islamic idyll on the subcontinent.

HINDUTVA IDEOLOGUES look at the ancient period of Indian history as a golden age marked by social harmony, devoid of any religious violence, and portray the middle ages as a phase of a reign of terror unleashed by Muslim rulers on Hindus. Central to their perception is the belief that Muslim rulers indiscriminately demolished Hindu temples and broke Hindu idols. They relentlessly propagate the canard that 60,000 Hindu temples were demolished during Muslim rule, though there is hardly any credible evidence for the destruction of more than 80 of them. On the other hand, even a cursory survey of historical evidence shows that the demolition and desecration of rival religious establishments, and the appropriation of their idols, was not uncommon in India before the advent of Islam.


https://caravanmagazine.in/reviews-and-essays/dn-jha-destruction-buddhist-sites

 

[Juggernaut_Flat_Plane_V8]

Looking at the current people of Indus valley, I feel that this is highly doubtful. You should support your claim.

Pashupati Seal...but that doesnot prove anything...First proper EXACT mention of meditation is in the Buddhist Suttas when Buddha learns from (Hindu) Samkhya Philosophy Sages Uddaka Ramaputta and Alara Kalama

Their meditation techniques led to the attainment of infinite nothingness and the realm of neither perception nor non perception

The allusion towards meditation is already in the Rig Veda (the Sukta after Nasadiya) as well as the early pre-Buddhist Upanishads....but nothing concrete

 

[Safriz]

Padmasambhava from Swat Valley

This guy was Buddhist not Hindu.
Swat, Taxila and many areas of Pakistan had Buddhist monstries.
I wonder why India being a Hindu country is celebrating him?
We used to have plenty of Buddhist tourists from Japan, Korea and other countries coming to Pakistan to see their heritage in Pakistan.

 

[Mentee]

Looking at the current people of Indus valley, I feel that this is highly doubtful. You should support your claim.

You just munch at your vara pao thyala and stop passing judgements over Indus folks

 

[50cent]

We also need baba ramdev statueCoolest dude in town