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  • @prospero021
    @prospero021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1984

    One of Buddha's teachings is that you should never believe everything that you are told (Kalama Sutra) and you should use logical reasoning to seek truth. This video is a fine example of that teaching.

    • @prospero021
      @prospero021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @匿名 You have Ashoka to thank for that.

    • @thilinachaturanga6274
      @thilinachaturanga6274 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      no you get it wrong way, read the background story about Kalama Sutra. then you understand real meaning of that.

    • @shivirsharma8439
      @shivirsharma8439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@سرداردلها-ر6ذ yes mohammed was crying in pain with aisha

    • @valeethaimassagellc4341
      @valeethaimassagellc4341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@سرداردلها-ر6ذ get out if you going to come here acting racist , no one said anything about your muslim , use that kind of language

    • @valeethaimassagellc4341
      @valeethaimassagellc4341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      That true brother ! a d be mindful in one speech , think before you talk and don’t use the racist talk degrading about our Buddha, you know whom you are ., This is not a muslim video . Why you even came here to act stupid

  • @robinderoubaix586
    @robinderoubaix586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2255

    Correction: Mahayana Buddhism is founded on the Sanskrit canon (not Chinese)

    • @Karmavizuals
      @Karmavizuals 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      China 😂

    • @Dr_Sunil_Pal
      @Dr_Sunil_Pal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      How are you saying? Explain it

    • @candrawijaya2631
      @candrawijaya2631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +261

      Mahayana also came from india..

    • @selvakumar5663
      @selvakumar5663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      Sanskrit has no right to compare buddhuism.sanskrit( Aryans )destroyed buddhism in india.

    • @Dr_Sunil_Pal
      @Dr_Sunil_Pal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      May be later this was translated from Sanskrit Canon to Chinese cannon like as Traveller came from China in India .

  • @fclp67
    @fclp67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2663

    Buddha seemed like a pretty chill guy, spent a lot of time thinking before he rushed into action and didn't wanna destroy anybody who didn't agree with him

    • @yrobtsvt
      @yrobtsvt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      not that this had much of an influence on the religious wars of Buddhist kingdoms, notably Sri Lanka and Burma

    • @blindpringles
      @blindpringles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      The Buddha rushed into no action

    • @dinuwarabinudithdesilva5464
      @dinuwarabinudithdesilva5464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Sri Lanka was under rule of no religion when buddha determined that after the parnirvana, the relics must stay in Sri lanka for safety until 5000 years(Buddha's relics will come out after 5000 years from the death and they will vanish after they all coagulated together and performed the last preach, in that, all the people who hear and understand will be triumphed the nirvana). Becuase of that determination, the sri lanka will never come under the rule of another opposition until 5000 years

    • @zfg07
      @zfg07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Showed middle finger to Vedas 👏👏

    • @arianagandhi2601
      @arianagandhi2601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      @@zfg07 no he did not he might have disagreeed with the vedas and the Jains but never disrespected anyone

  • @aaronbaldwin2380
    @aaronbaldwin2380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    Buddha says: "When I am gone, if you see my teachings you see me."
    Thus, if your practice Vipassana Meditation as taught by the Buddha, your doubts about his existence is completely gone.

    • @nikutube701
      @nikutube701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There are no god damned sources of Vipassana breathing exercises having any relation to Buddhist teaching about changing the world. Vipassana shit is more about personal gratification than changing the world by examining it - which is what Buddha was talking about....

    • @ganeshreddy2623
      @ganeshreddy2623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@nikutube701 , Use regular language dude, provocation doesn't help.

    • @aaronbaldwin2380
      @aaronbaldwin2380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nikutube701 lol... 😂😂😂

    • @bjird7278
      @bjird7278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I once try to read vedas just out of curiosity, i can't understand literally any sentence there 🐧 so i don't know how it makes senses to believe that god is bunch of anim*ls and human with colors a lot of hands with tools just like what kids used to draw from their imagination

    • @ganeshreddy2623
      @ganeshreddy2623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bjird7278 , what makes sense to you?.

  • @MiyuruGuruge
    @MiyuruGuruge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +439

    A little point to avoid misunderstanding. As a prince budda had a luxurious life. Once he left the palace he practiced extreme hunger and poverty to find whether he can attain enlightenment through that path. But he understood neither extreme luxury nor extreme pain going to take you to Enlightenment and followed the MIDDLE PATH (not extreme luxury nor extreme pain)

    • @TruthSeeker69921
      @TruthSeeker69921 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Recorded human civilisation started around 5000bc.. Sumerians invented first writings and could be traced to 4000bc.. they invented most of our daily basic necessity today from time to wheels to buildings and the first religion written on cuneiform writings which tells about the great flood, adam and eve, multiple gods, avatars... later at 1400bc jewish religion came about and they started to pray to many Gods similar to sumerians.. at around 1500bc the indus civilisation collapsed and the dravidians went south of india and some stayed north at pakistan.. and came the aryan invasion with vedic teaching using sanskirt also at around 1500bc.. if vedic teaching was at around 1500bc, so vaishnavism which talks folktales of thousands of gods and avatars also shud hv appeared around this time.. so prevedic shaivism shud hv existed prior to 1500bc and likely the mode of religion in indus valley which goes back to 3000bc.. at 600 bc isiaih decided to merge all the gods into one because monotheism from buddhism were becoming popular at that time.. so monotheism appeared at around 600bc and then the start of christianity around 2bc.. jesus and buddha has lots of similarities so maybe both of them cud be the same person jz like how murugan cud be alexander the great.. because after buddha's teaching which made humans realise that god is only 1 (monotheism), after 600 years of realisation that god is only one emerged christianity.. so jesus christ cud be modified buddha's story.. and then at around 600AD.. muhammad modified every versions from sumerian, hebrew to bible and invented a better holy book and started propagating islam also a monotheism religion.. so basically monotheism already existed at indus civilisation and likely was prevedic shaivism.. and later as polytheism getting its peak around the world including india due to aryan invasion, buddha had to intervene and make everyone realise that god is only 1.. that is why the aryan version of hindu religion which is vaishnavism is still followed by us hindu till today.. buddhism somehow realised the actual teaching of monotheism is from prevedic shaivism not the aryan version of vaishnavism.. and then at around 320bc alexander the great came to india and only fought king porus and won but spared his life plus did not cont the war against the mauryan empire.. so he went back to babylon and died a few years after.. so the the demise made king chandragupta of maurya to make him the god of war in india as a deity because they already had thousands of gods at that time so they added him.. and that is how skanda kanda iskandar murugan is worshipped and murugan worshipping was at its peak during sangam era around 300bc and we still worship to murugan till today as the most populsr deity for the Tamils.. i think everyone shud start reading back history and to seek only for the truth, not jz blindly believe onto everything.. only the truth will prevail

    • @barbosaluiz
      @barbosaluiz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TruthSeeker69921 Amazing analysis

    • @hardikgupta9105
      @hardikgupta9105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@TruthSeeker69921 nice fairy tale story
      You clearly seem to have no clue about buddhism's teachings.

    • @Madhawa242
      @Madhawa242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@TruthSeeker69921 In buddhism, we dont worship a god. There's no concept of higher power. Its all about Nirvana.

    • @AceofCoins7
      @AceofCoins7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TruthSeeker69921 except the 'aryan vaishnavism' isnt an ancient thing, and the Vedas were written by Aryans and encompassed the Unmanifest monotheism, God without form. Many deities were reverred yet reading Vedas and the Upanishads shows the belief in one God. Also the Aryans vedic religion and zoroastrianism have been proved to have evolved from the Proto-Indo European religion. The pre Aryan India was by no means a Monotheistic nation, and many Dravidian deities were absorbed into Aryan deities.

  • @StevenTham
    @StevenTham 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

    Interesting & informative video. There is common understanding on the Buddha we have. I being a student of Buddhist and Pali University in Sri Lanka, there are many points i must concur in your sharing. Best from Singapore 🇸🇬

    • @charcolatier
      @charcolatier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @- king- ? It's singapore

    • @TruthSeeker69921
      @TruthSeeker69921 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Recorded human civilisation started around 5000bc.. Sumerians invented first writings and could be traced to 4000bc.. they invented most of our daily basic necessity today from time to wheels to buildings and the first religion written on cuneiform writings which tells about the great flood, adam and eve, multiple gods, avatars... later at 1400bc jewish religion came about and they started to pray to many Gods similar to sumerians.. at around 1500bc the indus civilisation collapsed and the dravidians went south of india and some stayed north at pakistan.. and came the aryan invasion with vedic teaching using sanskirt also at around 1500bc.. if vedic teaching was at around 1500bc, so vaishnavism which talks folktales of thousands of gods and avatars also shud hv appeared around this time.. so prevedic shaivism shud hv existed prior to 1500bc and likely the mode of religion in indus valley which goes back to 3000bc.. at 600 bc isiaih decided to merge all the gods into one because monotheism from buddhism were becoming popular at that time.. so monotheism appeared at around 600bc and then the start of christianity around 2bc.. jesus and buddha has lots of similarities so maybe both of them cud be the same person jz like how murugan cud be alexander the great.. because after buddha's teaching which made humans realise that god is only 1 (monotheism), after 600 years of realisation that god is only one emerged christianity.. so jesus christ cud be modified buddha's story.. and then at around 600AD.. muhammad modified every versions from sumerian, hebrew to bible and invented a better holy book and started propagating islam also a monotheism religion.. so basically monotheism already existed at indus civilisation and likely was prevedic shaivism.. and later as polytheism getting its peak around the world including india due to aryan invasion, buddha had to intervene and make everyone realise that god is only 1.. that is why the aryan version of hindu religion which is vaishnavism is still followed by us hindu till today.. buddhism somehow realised the actual teaching of monotheism is from prevedic shaivism not the aryan version of vaishnavism.. and then at around 320bc alexander the great came to india and only fought king porus and won but spared his life plus did not cont the war against the mauryan empire.. so he went back to babylon and died a few years after.. so the the demise made king chandragupta of maurya to make him the god of war in india as a deity because they already had thousands of gods at that time so they added him.. and that is how skanda kanda iskandar murugan is worshipped and murugan worshipping was at its peak during sangam era around 300bc and we still worship to murugan till today as the most populsr deity for the Tamils.. i think everyone shud start reading back history and to seek only for the truth, not jz blindly believe onto everything.. only the truth will prevail

    • @dataxglobal
      @dataxglobal ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's funny how the narrator pronounced Suddhodhana and Siddhartha pretty correctly but still pronounced Buddha as Booda.

  • @gametoppler
    @gametoppler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    Ashoka pillar still exists in Lumbini, Nepal. It's a wonderful and peaceful place. The remains of the palace where Siddhartha (Buddha) was brought up are also there. One must see it in his/her lifetime.

    • @manasraj2632
      @manasraj2632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Because of Nalanda Books

    • @mikesheth5370
      @mikesheth5370 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nepal has copyright on everything Buddhist! Any Indian who talks about even Sarnath is misleading or Sarnath must be in Nepal! What a miserable india hating Hindu hating country !

    • @gametoppler
      @gametoppler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@mikesheth5370 Subjugation is not tolerated anywhere. Urdu originated in India but you still hate Urdu calling it alien language brought over by Muslim invaders. Why? Years of subjugation by the Mughals. Now same thing is going on with English over Hindi supremacy. Why? Again, because of subjugation. Terrorism in Indo-Pak region is well-known and understandable but why is there terrorist activities in North-East India (Eg: Call for Nagalim)? Yes, there are plethora of causes but a major one is, again, subjugation. Nepal doesn't hate India. I love India. We all do. Nepal just doesn't like to be subjugated. Why hasn't India yet received and addressed the EPG report (Google it if you don't know)? That's an insult to a small landlocked country. Isn't that a form of subjugation?

    • @mikesheth5370
      @mikesheth5370 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gametoppler Tell me how Nepal is subjugated right now by India? Problem is nepalis blame india for all their problems and China is their saviour. I was disillusioned by everything Nepalis day they blamed Indian spy agency for killing their dynasty. No proof as RAW is very smart! No logic works here if you tell big section of Hindus had reverence for Nepali dynasty where as aam Nepali hated Royal house and thought with help of india they the Royals kept them backward. If there is unequal or explorative trade treaties peal can oppose it. If India exploits resources like minerals and electricity put a stop to it. If India recruits Gurkhas put a stop! No country should provide meceneries! And come out of unprovable conspiracy theories and giving breaks to China!

    • @gametoppler
      @gametoppler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mikesheth5370 Don't try to blame everything on China, find an excuse and run away. China card won't help your cause. First answer my question. Why isn't EPG yet addressed despite years of diplomatic requests and urgency? Why? Isn't that subjugation or at the very least attempted subjugation of a sovereign nation?

  • @ต้นคูณชาวภาคเหนือภาคอีสาน

    As aThai Thai Theravada Buddhist, l was pleased to hear you guys describe my religion. I am pleased that you guys learnd a bit about our Buddhism.🙏☸🇹🇭 Thank you.

    • @robertnguyen4671
      @robertnguyen4671 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sadhu sadhu 🙏🙏🙏

  • @IndraKatiK
    @IndraKatiK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +598

    One of his teachings is to always question everything and not blindfully put faith in anything..
    So even questioning the proof of his existence is, in a (buddhist) way, a religious thing to do lol

    • @Littlefinger4E
      @Littlefinger4E 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Exactly ❤

    • @huangec
      @huangec 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      One of the most important teachings: question everything.

    • @sajeewakalamba1796
      @sajeewakalamba1796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Buddha preached this to a man called "Kalama". He was complicated by different opinions, came to Buddha & asked about his opinion. Buddha told him not to believe anything just because it is wrote, passed on by generations or told by anybody including Buddha himself, "unless you do not understand by yourself". You can find more on this in "Kalama Sutra" in Buddhist cannon.
      This is one of the major differences Buddhism has from other religions.

    • @jayantkamble6082
      @jayantkamble6082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@4GB_RAM_Gaming There is no existence organised cult named Sanatan Dharma.

    • @others1620
      @others1620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@4GB_RAM_Gaming tanatan drum

  • @Adi.Priya1
    @Adi.Priya1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    Name Siddharth Gautama has a very beautiful meaning: 'Siddharth' means 'he who has found his true value/meaning in life' and 'Gautama' meaning 'someone who makes darkness go away'.

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Wrong. Siddh means accomplished, artha means world / money. Siddhartha means one who is successful in the world.
      Gautama comes from "Go" & "Tama" , Go means Cow, and Tama means many. Goutama means one who owns many cows or one who cares for many cows.
      Its a bit silly to spin your own interpretation on the names.

    • @Adi.Priya1
      @Adi.Priya1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@zaxcollix123 With all due respect:
      The name Gautam is one of the ancient Indian names and is derived from the Sanskrit roots "gŐ(गः)" and "tama (तम)". "Tama" means "darkness" and "gŐ" means inter alia "bright light". Together, they means the Sun.

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@Adi.Priya1 LOL. The word "cow" literally came from the sanskrit root word "gou" or 'go" which means "cow".
      गः = 'ga H" NOT "gŐ".
      Tama = Many
      TamaS=dark, lazy etc.
      Gautama IS an ancient name and Rg veda mentions Gautama Maharishi several times And his name meant one who owned many cows. Including Kamadenu the ever giving eternal cow.

    • @Adi.Priya1
      @Adi.Priya1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zaxcollix123 okk

    • @unishmanandhar9190
      @unishmanandhar9190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Gautam is second name given him after his mother maha maya devi died...Maha prajapati gautami is his second mother sister of his own mother maha maya devi...Mr Ap dont comment non sense...every bodhisatvas left their homes in the search for answer
      Many Bodhisattvas have been born in this world Last bodhisatva is prince siddhartha gautam was born in nepal but he rise as buddha in indian state
      let me tell you that Siddhartha name has no meaning like hindu name does so don't try to mix buddhist ceremonial name into hindu name...Buddhism rise from india and it was destroyed in india in very first place by muslim empires and by hindus brahmin..
      Hindu people stole buddha name as vishnu actually buddha is not a hindu god
      Buddha was even worshipped by hindu god call baali
      Baali is vishnu call in ancient time so dont drag buddhism into hindu...

  • @MD-cv2pj
    @MD-cv2pj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +380

    It is amazing to see a teaching from 2.600 years ago still exist till now.

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      LOL. Hinduism is more than 15,000 years old. Buddhism is just another branch of this old tree.

    • @arka_world
      @arka_world 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Sports Entertainment bro do you know the meaning of Harappa?

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@Sports Entertainment History is a tool used by the victors to spin a narrative to suite their agenda.
      One has to be a fool to not recognize this simple reality of life.
      Your white worship and "west" worship blinds you to the reality of their narrative that seeks to spread their supremacy and belittle any other culture that laughs at their narrative.
      That is how the Christian "crooked Cross / Hakenkreuz" of the Nazis became the Hindu "Swastika" in recent Historical Narrative.
      Stop being a sepoy for the west to push their lies and narrative.
      As for Hindu historical records, Start reading Hindu history books like the Purans and the "Ithihas".

    • @Mingmasherpa7
      @Mingmasherpa7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@zaxcollix123 there is not even a single evidence that hinduism existed before 8th century AD. Not a statue, not a stone scripted proof , or anything else. But they got lots & lots of stories only.

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ​@@Mingmasherpa7 LOL. Brahmi script itself is from 300 BC. Before that there is the Swaraswati-Indus script. Oldest Hindu diety is the Kalpa Vigraha which has been dated to 26450 BC.
      Either you are a bigot, a fool or a bigoted fool. Take your pick.

  • @karanamsagarmurthy6354
    @karanamsagarmurthy6354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I visited both Bodh Gaya and Lumbini. They give enormous peace when in presence of Tathagath and his mother Maya devi temple. Pranams

  • @DarkKnightLives
    @DarkKnightLives 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Very nice and informative video ... While historians may doubt the historicity of Buddha's teachings, the Buddha did not want his disciples to accept the teachings just because he says so .... He encouraged free inquiry ... In the Kalama Sutta, the Buddha exhorts to Kalamas:
    "Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, 'The monk is our teacher.' Kalamas, when you yourselves know: 'These things are bad; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill,' abandon them."
    "Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, 'The monk is our teacher.' Kalamas, when you yourselves know: 'These things are good; these things are not blamable; these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to benefit and happiness,' enter on and abide in them."
    The most basic teachings of the Tathagata are The Four Noble Truths and The Noble Eightfold Path and these can be observed through meditation that is Vipassana. Vipassana is the core of Buddha's teachings.

    • @MathTutor1
      @MathTutor1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You understand the core of Buddhism.

  • @achalindafonseka3957
    @achalindafonseka3957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Very interesting and well presented.
    Being a buddhist I too think some of the miracles mentioned in the scripts were aimed at creating devotion than documenting actual events.
    According to Buddhist teaching buddha has achieved status to end his existence and he has asked his followers to follow Dhamma (Buddhist teachings) and always use inquiring mind and freedom to question anything.

    • @poojaneeanuradha7595
      @poojaneeanuradha7595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dhamma is more sacred than lord buddha. Buddha said that.

    • @alexlo7708
      @alexlo7708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      One who see through Dhamma are one who can see me. The Buddha saying.

    • @svanimation8969
      @svanimation8969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@poojaneeanuradha7595 actually it's misspronouce word dharama (means duty or your life purpose )
      In that period in old scripters of Hinduism story's this word vastly used so kinda he nearly from Nepal area these guys pronounce not like Indians 100 % so they kinda make word dharama = dhama

    • @JKribbit
      @JKribbit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm a buddhist too and I have a theory regarding the miracles. I think back then people are more inclined towards holy men practicing miracles than a normal person achieving enlightenment. You can look at Jesus and Hindu gods for example. So in order to gain more followers, his disciples had to make up Buddha to be this holy, enlightened being that can perform miracles.

    • @TruthSeeker69921
      @TruthSeeker69921 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Recorded human civilisation started around 5000bc.. Sumerians invented first writings and could be traced to 4000bc.. they invented most of our daily basic necessity today from time to wheels to buildings and the first religion written on cuneiform writings which tells about the great flood, adam and eve, multiple gods, avatars... later at 1400bc jewish religion came about and they started to pray to many Gods similar to sumerians.. at around 1500bc the indus civilisation collapsed and the dravidians went south of india and some stayed north at pakistan.. and came the aryan invasion with vedic teaching using sanskirt also at around 1500bc.. if vedic teaching was at around 1500bc, so vaishnavism which talks folktales of thousands of gods and avatars also shud hv appeared around this time.. so prevedic shaivism shud hv existed prior to 1500bc and likely the mode of religion in indus valley which goes back to 3000bc.. at 600 bc isiaih decided to merge all the gods into one because monotheism from buddhism were becoming popular at that time.. so monotheism appeared at around 600bc and then the start of christianity around 2bc.. jesus and buddha has lots of similarities so maybe both of them cud be the same person jz like how murugan cud be alexander the great.. because after buddha's teaching which made humans realise that god is only 1 (monotheism), after 600 years of realisation that god is only one emerged christianity.. so jesus christ cud be modified buddha's story.. and then at around 600AD.. muhammad modified every versions from sumerian, hebrew to bible and invented a better holy book and started propagating islam also a monotheism religion.. so basically monotheism already existed at indus civilisation and likely was prevedic shaivism.. and later as polytheism getting its peak around the world including india due to aryan invasion, buddha had to intervene and make everyone realise that god is only 1.. that is why the aryan version of hindu religion which is vaishnavism is still followed by us hindu till today.. buddhism somehow realised the actual teaching of monotheism is from prevedic shaivism not the aryan version of vaishnavism.. and then at around 320bc alexander the great came to india and only fought king porus and won but spared his life plus did not cont the war against the mauryan empire.. so he went back to babylon and died a few years after.. so the the demise made king chandragupta of maurya to make him the god of war in india as a deity because they already had thousands of gods at that time so they added him.. and that is how skanda kanda iskandar murugan is worshipped and murugan worshipping was at its peak during sangam era around 300bc and we still worship to murugan till today as the most populsr deity for the Tamils.. i think everyone shud start reading back history and to seek only for the truth, not jz blindly believe onto everything.. only the truth will prevail

  • @bahadursunny1674
    @bahadursunny1674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +560

    I am a theravada buddhist from bangladesh, your video is really helpful. (Sadhu 3)Thank you 🙏🙏
    BTW.....
    There is more information about buddha's family in the "Ambattha sutta" in "Diggha nikaya"-"tripitaka"
    You can also check the "Atthakatha"s to get more about the leniage.
    :) metta !!

    • @chasestefanson8501
      @chasestefanson8501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Do you know where can I find Tipitaka Atthakatha in English online? I did some online searching and I could only find the original Pali texts with no translation

    • @AaronGarton666
      @AaronGarton666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@chasestefanson8501 -- Typically, the commentaries are found within some translations of certain books of the Pali Cannon. Others leave out the commentaries as being apocryphal. As you may have observed, not all of the Suttapitaka has been translated into English. let alone the commentaries.

    • @theparrot6516
      @theparrot6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Arent you guys really oppressed in bangla? I feel bad. Stay safe!

    • @bahadursunny1674
      @bahadursunny1674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@theparrot6516 no, its not that bad

    • @theparrot6516
      @theparrot6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@bahadursunny1674 ah! But it gets muddy over there hehe

  • @rupawathiechadwick6608
    @rupawathiechadwick6608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    I am SRI Lankan.
    My religion is Buddhist.
    What I learned from my temple school my childhood since that day what I learned my religion everything about your explanation is very correct. Thank you so much Sir 🙏
    Budu saranayi🙏🙏🙏

    • @punchipoint8457
      @punchipoint8457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Really? Where did you learn that Buddha attained nibbana in 400 or 480 BC?

    • @kavr
      @kavr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Budu saranai

    • @vsvishal8853
      @vsvishal8853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What are your thoughts on sri Lankan Tamils

    • @kavr
      @kavr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vsvishal8853 wdym

    • @WorldIsMother
      @WorldIsMother 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes Rupa , she explain it very well .

  • @bhavleenk
    @bhavleenk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +576

    I would love to see a similar video on the first guru of Sikhism. Given it is one of the youngest religions, it should have the most historical evidence.

    • @bhangraman92
      @bhangraman92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I second this. The first guru was Guru Nanak, who laid the foundations for Sikhi (Sikhism).

    • @younghistory7417
      @younghistory7417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Baba

    • @corsaircaruso471
      @corsaircaruso471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ooh, I’d love to see this, too!

    • @FirstLast-ug4ri
      @FirstLast-ug4ri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes I would love to see!

    • @russworks5343
      @russworks5343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nor Budha nor any leader in Sikhism was a God, only Jesus is the true living God

  • @sandeepmalde7901
    @sandeepmalde7901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    A very informative presentation.
    During the time of The Buddha, there was another Saint called Mahaveera, who started a movement similar to Buddhism- Jainism.
    Jainism also talks about the presence of The Buddha. And both their stories are very similar.

    • @user-ml1mr1ls2y
      @user-ml1mr1ls2y 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Mahaveera lived 200 years before Siddhartha.

    • @jayantkamble6082
      @jayantkamble6082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@user-ml1mr1ls2y No. He was contemporary to the Buddha. I think 35 year of gap between them.

    • @SOny-bs1qi
      @SOny-bs1qi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      No. he was a contemporary. But Jainism preceded Buddhism. Mahavir was the 14th Tirthankara ( teacher) of the Jains.

    • @Pankaj-rq6mq
      @Pankaj-rq6mq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@SOny-bs1qi
      He was 24 th

    • @Pankaj-rq6mq
      @Pankaj-rq6mq 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-ml1mr1ls2y
      Contemporary

  • @garrethg6268
    @garrethg6268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Kalama Sutta - Do not simply believe what you hear or see including my teachings, only by experiencing and validating it yourself you will see the truth. ~ Buddha
    The only teacher that asked you not to blindly believe

    • @BobbyDazzler888
      @BobbyDazzler888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Proof only exists by experience?

    • @cjk9211
      @cjk9211 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Buddha's teachings may be good but inour daily life it is not possible to unbelieve what
      Other say because each one has varigated experiences and one cant probe everything
      To conclude if it is correct r not. Do u believe what medias say?
      Buddism dissappeared in our country because of this aspect
      .

    • @questor5189
      @questor5189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "If the blind lead the blind, then both shall fall into the ditch". -Jesus of Nazareth

    • @questor5189
      @questor5189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Alfred Wedmore There is also 1st Thessalonians 5:19-22, but this too may be in a different context than that of Siddhartha Gautama's. Thank you.

    • @SuperSreenesh
      @SuperSreenesh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In Bhagvat Geeta, has similar phrases which Krishna tells Arjuna it is up to you whether you want to follow this or not.

  • @Dctv999
    @Dctv999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    We hindus love Lord Buddha.... Namo Buddhey Gachami.... 🙏

    • @volstrekt
      @volstrekt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You mean Buddham Saranam Gachhami?

    • @Dctv999
      @Dctv999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@volstrekt yes 🙏

    • @amandmx
      @amandmx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Dctv999 hindus brahman destroyed buddhism

    • @Everything_12
      @Everything_12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@amandmx thervada destroyed mahayana and Hinduism in South East Asia

    • @parvadhami980
      @parvadhami980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@amandmx actually the revival of Hinduism and the Islamic Invasions made Buddhism vanish in India

  • @Exorcistdz
    @Exorcistdz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Love that you used Buddha statue in Greco-Buddhist style, from Kushan Empire

    • @theparrot6516
      @theparrot6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I always had a soft spot for the kushan empire. After all kushan is my dads name

    • @himanshukumarmaurya7326
      @himanshukumarmaurya7326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Kaniska was second Ashoka who belongs to Kushanas and propogated Buddhism to Eastern World.

    • @persepolis80
      @persepolis80 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think this period of art in Buddhism is beautiful ( Greco, Gandhara )

    • @FirstLast-lo3eo
      @FirstLast-lo3eo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kushans embraced Buddhism and because of that Greco-Buddhism spread more into the Indian Subcontinent.

  • @Sheldaschannel
    @Sheldaschannel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    woah! didn't expect that at 12:45 Sri Lankan here! Been a fan since the early days :)

  • @felidaebi6239
    @felidaebi6239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    There is a mistake 11:09
    Vishnu didn't incarnated only 10 times.
    He had nearly 20+ incarnations but these 10 were the most important ones

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      You are wrong too.
      Bhagvat Puran mentions 24 Avatar of Vishnu, not 20. But over time there has been THOUSANDS of Vishnu Avatar on earth. The 9+1 mentioned are the most important for humans. Because many of these avatar are from another age, before the age of man.
      Similarly Buddha mentions 27 Buddha's before him. Taṇhaṅkara Buddha, Medhaṅkara Buddha, Saraṇkara Buddha, Dīpankara Buddha, Koṇdañña Buddha, Maṅgala Buddha, Sumana Buddha, Revata Buddha, Sobhita Buddha, Anomadassi Buddha, Paduma Buddha, Nārada Buddha, Padumuttara Buddha, Sumedha Buddha, Sujāta Buddha, Piyadassi Buddha, Atthadassi Buddha, Dhammadassī Buddha, Siddhattha Buddha, Tissa Buddha, Phussa Buddha, Vipassī Buddha, Sikhī Buddha, Vessabhū Buddha, Kakusandha Buddha, Koṇāgamana Buddha and Kashyapa Buddha.

    • @preetamyadav7952
      @preetamyadav7952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@zaxcollix123 puranas are bakwas

    • @shadyinmist
      @shadyinmist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@preetamyadav7952 do you speak this way when you do not agree with anything!! You need to chill and be calm. At least I can I can infer you are not a Buddhist!

    • @surenderameelpur6475
      @surenderameelpur6475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Buddha, the great intellect, who has seen his previous life which are narrated in Jataka never mentioned he was a linage of hindu demigod vishnu's avatara. Can somebody correct me on this.

    • @preetamyadav7952
      @preetamyadav7952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@surenderameelpur6475 We all are avatar of god when we are self realised or enlightened. Bcoz oneness with god is the other name of enlightment.
      So enlightened soul who did extarordinary good for society are called avatar like ram , krishna , bhudha , mahavir etc.

  • @ericweinerhausen7096
    @ericweinerhausen7096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Thank you for this! I have always been a history buff, and have been a practicing Buddhist for years. It's always a joy to get to learn something new, even if it doesn't directly involve my practice.
    Well Done! or as we say in the Sangha... SvaHa!

    • @lioness5838
      @lioness5838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In hinduism, svaha is usually said when u offer something to fire.

    • @TruthSeeker69921
      @TruthSeeker69921 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Recorded human civilisation started around 5000bc.. Sumerians invented first writings and could be traced to 4000bc.. they invented most of our daily basic necessity today from time to wheels to buildings and the first religion written on cuneiform writings which tells about the great flood, adam and eve, multiple gods, avatars... later at 1400bc jewish religion came about and they started to pray to many Gods similar to sumerians.. at around 1500bc the indus civilisation collapsed and the dravidians went south of india and some stayed north at pakistan.. and came the aryan invasion with vedic teaching using sanskirt also at around 1500bc.. if vedic teaching was at around 1500bc, so vaishnavism which talks folktales of thousands of gods and avatars also shud hv appeared around this time.. so prevedic shaivism shud hv existed prior to 1500bc and likely the mode of religion in indus valley which goes back to 3000bc.. at 600 bc isiaih decided to merge all the gods into one because monotheism from buddhism were becoming popular at that time.. so monotheism appeared at around 600bc and then the start of christianity around 2bc.. jesus and buddha has lots of similarities so maybe both of them cud be the same person jz like how murugan cud be alexander the great.. because after buddha's teaching which made humans realise that god is only 1 (monotheism), after 600 years of realisation that god is only one emerged christianity.. so jesus christ cud be modified buddha's story.. and then at around 600AD.. muhammad modified every versions from sumerian, hebrew to bible and invented a better holy book and started propagating islam also a monotheism religion.. so basically monotheism already existed at indus civilisation and likely was prevedic shaivism.. and later as polytheism getting its peak around the world including india due to aryan invasion, buddha had to intervene and make everyone realise that god is only 1.. that is why the aryan version of hindu religion which is vaishnavism is still followed by us hindu till today.. buddhism somehow realised the actual teaching of monotheism is from prevedic shaivism not the aryan version of vaishnavism.. and then at around 320bc alexander the great came to india and only fought king porus and won but spared his life plus did not cont the war against the mauryan empire.. so he went back to babylon and died a few years after.. so the the demise made king chandragupta of maurya to make him the god of war in india as a deity because they already had thousands of gods at that time so they added him.. and that is how skanda kanda iskandar murugan is worshipped and murugan worshipping was at its peak during sangam era around 300bc and we still worship to murugan till today as the most populsr deity for the Tamils.. i think everyone shud start reading back history and to seek only for the truth, not jz blindly believe onto everything.. only the truth will prevail

  • @mbgal7758
    @mbgal7758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    You always do such a great job being respectful of people’s beliefs while still giving accurate historical information.

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL. "accurate info" ? Buddha's name was "siddharta", not "Siddharta gautama'. "Gautama" was the name given to him when he became a Hindu Sanyasi (one who renouce society). "Maha Janapada" LITEREALLY means "Great Republic". Only this idiot is claiming those as "Kingdome's" and "ruled by oligarchs". I can go on and on, but you get the gist.

    • @mbgal7758
      @mbgal7758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@zaxcollix123 well I guess you better make your own videos getting everything exactly right.

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mbgal7758 Why ? isn't it better to let white supremacist feel better by rewriting history ?

    • @mbgal7758
      @mbgal7758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@zaxcollix123 who’s a white supremacist? Me or Useful Charts? Either way is not useful to anyones cause to insult someone’s careful research and respectful portrayal or my admiration of such when there’s so much disrespect and hate. If everyone you disagree with is a white supremacist it dilutes the term to nothingness. If you think me stating that if there is so much wrong you should do a video or a reaction video with corrections makes me a white supremacist I would have to disagree. I’m a student of history. If you have an alternate story please tell it.

    • @zaxcollix123
      @zaxcollix123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@mbgal7758 Anyone who deliberately lies that the 16 Maha-Janapada's were kingdom ruled by Oligarchs is a white supremist eager to claim "democracy" is Greek. Leaders of the Maha janapada were elected by the people and the elections were conducted by a commissioner called Salaka-gahapaka.
      The story of Buddha leaving his family after seeing "suffering" is Fake too. That story is of another Buddha who was born Much Much earlier. Buddha was 29 when he took Sanyasa.
      "prince" Siddhartha died and was REBORN as "Gautama" after he became a student of Hindu Rishi AlarKalam who taught him Meditation (dhyana).
      Kapilavastu, prince Siddharta's city was discovered in Piprahwa, northern India. Archelogical survey of India (ASI) has found ruins with writings confirming the same.
      Buddha's relics was actually found by the ASI in Piprahwa. One of the Jar contained 10 bone fragments and the other 12.The bones found by ASI are on display at the National Museum, New Delhi.
      Also Koliya kingdome was NOT a vassal state to Kapilavastu. Both Kingdome's were ruled by Brothers.
      I can go on and on, but I don't think its worth it. What you study is jaded by "british historians" who claim "Aryan invasion theory".
      Anyway my last post on this topic.

  • @distoriank5314
    @distoriank5314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Bro do one about the Christian schisms:ancient to modern. Cover all the major churches too if you can.

    • @Saka_Mulia
      @Saka_Mulia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeh, Christian denominations through history would be great. In fact every major religion's denominations would be a great series.

  • @FilipeSilva1
    @FilipeSilva1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thank you for speaking so clearly and in at a speed that allows parallely thinking.

  • @johnandrewmunroe
    @johnandrewmunroe ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love how this channel is flourishing and evolving. Keep up the great work!

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Could be Buddhism teaches lots of awareness, peacefulness, passiveness, understanding, sympathy, empathy, compassion, revelation, revealing, patience, reflection, humanity, humanitarianism, emotion, prudence, and helpfulness

    • @DipayanPyne94
      @DipayanPyne94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Umm, not really. If I am not mistaken, Revelation is not found in Buddha's Teachings.

    • @DipayanPyne94
      @DipayanPyne94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Your God is my Dog That's Right !

    • @user-xd8mm4ph4r
      @user-xd8mm4ph4r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Spiritual Warrior lol 😂

    • @rossclark9155
      @rossclark9155 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DipayanPyne94 reveal-ation. Not REVELATIONS, bibley

    • @DipayanPyne94
      @DipayanPyne94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rossclark9155 Umm, no. The Original comment has the word 'Revelation' in it. So does mine.

  • @joeblow2481
    @joeblow2481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I love it when you dissect the historicity of ancient people/stories. Its so interesting!
    Some other suggested topics: Abraham, the Trojan War, King Arthur, Romulus and Remus, the Mahabharata, the Amazons, etc.

    • @agniswar3
      @agniswar3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What about Ramayana?

    • @milliyetci5672
      @milliyetci5672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@agniswar3 mythology... he already did a video about Hindu mythology.....

    • @milliyetci5672
      @milliyetci5672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @One word to describe: COSMOS You came in a wrong channel... Here we don't talk about which religion is true, it's a history chart channel....
      We know the written time of Quran and it's history that what's going on that time.... We know the existence of Prophet Muhammad, his birth date etc.... During Prophet's time, those people who accept Prophet Muhammad's teaching was called muslim and those who don't believe like you said they called non-muslim....
      Now talk about Hindu mythology, there's no prove where's it came or when it was written that's why it's called mythology......... This is not my words... Scholars called it Greek mythology, Roman Mythology, Hindu mythology because they don't find how all this oral story came and who write it and their existence...

    • @milliyetci5672
      @milliyetci5672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @One word to describe: COSMOS You missed the point again.... is Hindusim began in 5th century BC??? Valmiki is not a Prophet nor a religion founder, he just the first one to written down all the oral story of Hindu mythology, before that people only tell those story orally from mouth to mouth.... People don't from know where all this story came from same goes to Greek mythology... 'Homer' is the first one who wrote most of story of greek mythology in his books Iliad, Odyssey and others even before valmiki... But it doesn't mean those story people didn't use before Homer written down...
      Mythology simply means those story which come to us from orally mouth to mouth and we don't know where's it came from nor any acrological evidence.... it's a mixed of legend and myth without historical existence...

    • @videhibajaj5581
      @videhibajaj5581 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@milliyetci5672 you have got all the points wrong. Hinduism is not a religion, It's a way of life. The concept of religion came much after Hinduism. People from the Indus valley civilization(One of the oldest) followed Hinduism. Hinduism isn't about one god or one way, there are four different ways to attain Moksha(Liberation). Loving God and all the creatures is just one among many. Coming to the point if Hindiusm is mythology? It's not. Quran is around 1400 years old. Whereas, Vedas( Sacred Hindu text) is much much older. Some estimates are 20,000 years older. The dating on current ones are 5,000 years old before that everything was taught orally.

  • @Illjwamh
    @Illjwamh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    I love these. You should do one for Zoroaster, too, if you can. I know there's not a lot to go on with him.
    Also: Mani, the Báb, and Baháʼu'lláh.

    • @elmajraz6019
      @elmajraz6019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And Mazdak too.

    • @dudeonthasopha
      @dudeonthasopha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Aren't there photos of baha'u'llah?

    • @Illjwamh
      @Illjwamh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dudeonthasopha Yeah, probably. I was thinking more of the family tree aspect for him.

    • @elmajraz6019
      @elmajraz6019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dudeonthasopha yeah, because Baha'ullah is a recent religious founder, like Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of Ahmadiyya, and like the founder of Mormonism.

    • @agniswar3
      @agniswar3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@elmajraz6019 but isn't mormonism or the LDS church is another denomination of Christianity?

  • @tsondang1169
    @tsondang1169 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love how well and accurate your history retracement you have done for this video

  • @thisarusitharahemachandra5173
    @thisarusitharahemachandra5173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great video!!! I am a sri lankan buddhist and also was history and archaeology student. This is exactly what I have learned about Buddha's existence as a historical person. The way you presented it logically proving the argument is excellent! I wa surprised at first at your knowledge of buddhist literature but then saw that you were in Sri Lanka for many years! Great great work!

  • @ladyluna457
    @ladyluna457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    Great video as usual. Can you talk about the Dalai Lama? Who was the first one and how are they chosen? Thanks ✌

    • @ConstructmanPsion
      @ConstructmanPsion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not the OP, but: the first person to be acknowledged as "Dalai Lama" was Sonam Gyatso, who was given the title by Altan Khan in 1573. Sonam Gyatso was retroactively considered to be the rebirth of Gedun Gyatso, who was the rebirth of Gedun Drubpa.

    • @janmakoli6380
      @janmakoli6380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ConstructmanPsion lady luna did Not say thanks. Sooooo thanks

    • @redjohn3662
      @redjohn3662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      if you go by the original buddha philosophy not by later day fake buddhism in different names created by buddha"s followers..dalai lama is not a buddhist at all...you cant be a monk and king like the LAMA and POPE

    • @melkormorgothbauglir.4848
      @melkormorgothbauglir.4848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@redjohn3662 Are you Buddhist ?

    • @KiranSingh-zr8jr
      @KiranSingh-zr8jr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@redjohn3662 What is fake Buddhism?🤣🤣

  • @yohanchowdhury3396
    @yohanchowdhury3396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Let me correct you brother Lord Krishna was a Yaduvanshi Kshatriya. At first, Chandra-Vamsha was known as Soma-Vamsha(Soma= moon or silver), and during the reign of King, Yayati Soma-Vamsha has divided its 4 different clans where Chandra-Vansh and Yadu-Vansh were two of the major fractions of the Soma-Vamshi clan.

    • @piesause1376
      @piesause1376 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The moon/sun dynasty thing is also present as Cambodia first dynasties.

    • @yohanchowdhury3396
      @yohanchowdhury3396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@piesause1376 Because back in time Myanmar, Cambodia,Thailand and Malaysia were ruled by the early Chola Dynasty, Middle Pandyas and later Cheras (The Three Crowned KIngs of South).

    • @piesause1376
      @piesause1376 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @- king- not exactly we have our own distinct enough ethnicity before so called "Indian" came. Especially Malay and Mon Khmer people.

    • @Albetroz1415
      @Albetroz1415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@piesause1376 yes you did but Dharmic traditions such as Hinduism & Buddhism came to South East Asia through Indian kings. Nothing was PEACEFUL during that time even Ashoka who spread Buddhism to the world was a brutal EMPEROR, his passiveness is all ancient propaganda.

    • @theeye5844
      @theeye5844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@piesause1376 hinduism and Buddhism brought to you by Indians.
      Do you think that you could've cooked up your own religion, culture and traditions?
      Remember, all these you have, because of Indians.

  • @selcukdilek4656
    @selcukdilek4656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I'm from Turkey and I like people such as Buddha & Confucius because they never attributed supernatural justification of a god to themselves, nor did they say you need to respect them more than your own parents.
    Unlike the nonsense I was told to believe in .....

    • @rusirusathkalana7355
      @rusirusathkalana7355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      is it true that most Turks are non-religous nowdays ?
      i see tons of comments by ppl from Turkey in athiest vids. :)

    • @selcukdilek4656
      @selcukdilek4656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@rusirusathkalana7355 The ones born in the 90s and later are more liberal. The ones living in Europe come from more conservative areas and might be more religious.

    • @alexnme
      @alexnme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@selcukdilek4656 it's really weird to get that ppl from Europe are more conservative. Well I appreciate liberal thoughts n ideas in every religion.

    • @blackinpublic4193
      @blackinpublic4193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Buddha is worshipped unlike Confucius. It’s a religion.

    • @MathTutor1
      @MathTutor1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That means you are intelligent.

  • @SAOS451316
    @SAOS451316 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Thanks for having proper captions. It's appreciated.

  • @shinjinobrave
    @shinjinobrave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Siddharta Gautama, assuming there is no suffering in the world and deciding to go for a stroll: "Yo what the fuck?"

    • @jackkendall6420
      @jackkendall6420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Siddharta, after eating a solid meal for the first time after going on a starvation diet for years: "Yooooooooooo!"

    • @dinuwarabinudithdesilva5464
      @dinuwarabinudithdesilva5464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jackkendall6420 But he eventually became no sufferin after opposing the evil.

    • @oreradovanovi5204
      @oreradovanovi5204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agree, it's b.s. beginning, but it's a myth, not for my taste

    • @theparrot6516
      @theparrot6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oreradovanovi5204 well thats a bit disrepectful. But i agree. He didnt actually eat nothing for years. He survived on gruel.

    • @oreradovanovi5204
      @oreradovanovi5204 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Disrespectful, hmmm? Sure, I've been sitting all my life, if put together I spent 2 years + on the cushion... So I follow the practice, but the mythology have no respect for.

  • @petewerehere
    @petewerehere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I appreciate your representation of Buddhism here, but describing the suttas as "short, wise sayings attributed to the Buddha" is like saying that the Gospels are short, wise sayings attributed to Jesus. The translation of the Maha-satipatthana Sutta (about the establishing of mindfulness) is around 5,500 words long.

    • @Palaa94
      @Palaa94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Maybe I have weird standards but I think that 5,500 words is not long at all. That's the length of an average scientific article. And a gospel is very much an entire book.

    • @petewerehere
      @petewerehere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Palaa94 Fair enough! I think the problem with calling them "short, wise sayings" is that, to those unfamiliar with the teachings, suttas may be thought of as something like aphorisms or platitudes. But this not the style of suttas, at all. They are most often discourses featuring back-and-forths between the Buddha and an inquisitor(s) about a central theme. These can become very detailed and thorough. Referring to them as "sayings" doesn't fit very well, to me.
      To clarify my analogy: Does it make sense to call a chapter in Mark a "saying"?

    • @KiranSingh-zr8jr
      @KiranSingh-zr8jr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Great chola Empire Source?

    • @andrewsuryali8540
      @andrewsuryali8540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@petewerehere The four canonical gospels are clear narratives written in the style of a Greek novel. The suttas are just a collection of dialogues. There is no part in the suttas where it says, "after he said this, the Buddha got up, gathered his followers, then moved by boat across the Ganges river to come to the house of Padma and Mathuran where he was received by their eldest son and dined with them. He stayed there for three days and three nights, leaving at the dawn of the fourth day, etc, etc..." which is the majority of the contents of the canonical gospels. Jesus' sayings actually comprise less than 30% of the gospels, with most of the contents being stories of his life. Mark, the oldest gospel, doesn't even care much about preserving Jesus' sayings, being mostly a narrative of the Passion. This is in direct contrast to Eastern scriptures like the suttas and the Chinese philosophical treatises which are just a bunch of actual sayings of the sage with very little actual narrative of what the sages did.
      That said, there may have been a lost Christian tradition of writing sayings gospels like the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas, which is the closest thing we have to a Christian sutta.

    • @petewerehere
      @petewerehere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@andrewsuryali8540 My main point of contention is in calling the suttas "short, wise sayings". I believe describing it this way is a misrepresentation that is fairly benign but could play into pre-conceived notions of those unfamiliar with the suttas.
      (I hate to do this because it's such a cliché, but here it goes...) The Oxford English Dictionary defines a saying (noun) as: "a short, pithy expression that generally contains advice or wisdom."
      It's hard for me to see how that definition could encompass all that the suttas are. And, it would be just as hard for me to define the Gospels that way, which is why I brought them up in the first place. The suttas and the Gospels both contain so much more than "short, pithy expressions". I hope that clears things up.
      Also, the Gospel of Thomas sounds interesting, and I'll be looking into it! Thanks for pointing it out!
      As an addendum:
      The suttas do contain sections that read as a narrative. For example, passages from the Maha-parinibbana Sutta tell of events before, during, and after the Buddha's death. Among these events are instances of the Buddha traveling with his followers and the Buddha's last meal (food poisoning from this meal is what causes his death).
      Two excerpts:
      1. Then the Blessed One addressed the Venerable Ananda, saying: "Come, Ananda, let us cross to the farther bank of the Hiraññavati, and go to the Mallas' Sala Grove, in the vicinity of Kusinara."
      "So be it, Lord."
      2. And the Blessed One, together with a large company of bhikkhus, went to the further bank of the river Hiraññavati, to the Sala Grove of the Mallas, in the vicinity of Kusinara. And there he spoke to the Venerable Ananda, saying:
      3. "Please, Ananda, prepare for me a couch between the twin sala trees, with the head to the north. I am weary, Ananda, and want to lie down."
      ...
      17. And Cunda the metalworker, after the night had passed, had choice food, hard and soft, prepared in his abode, together with a quantity of sukara-maddava, and announced it to the Blessed One, saying: "It is time, O Lord, the meal is ready."
      18. Thereupon the Blessed One, in the forenoon, having got ready, took bowl and robe and went with the community of bhikkhus to the house of Cunda, and there sat down on the seat prepared for him.

  • @kaiserislamtao
    @kaiserislamtao 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the guy whose voice is coming out from the background of the video. He's 60, maybe, a real knowledgeable man. Thanks.

  • @108asf
    @108asf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Matt, have you considered doing a timeline of the branches of monotheistic religions?

    • @fara.r.8181
      @fara.r.8181 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great idea.

    • @theparrot6516
      @theparrot6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Atenisn zoroastrianism judaism islam and christianity? Short video idk

    • @Iamthewarner557
      @Iamthewarner557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *ISLAM CHRISTIANITY HINDUISM DIFFERENCE:*
      *Islam :*
      Quran which is book of our creator Allah
      teaches us to worship only Allah without any partners and to believe in his all messangers (Peace be upon them all).
      We Muslims Worship only Allah who is our creator Who gives life and death.
      *PROOF THAT QURAN IS WORD OF GOD*
      *“We made the sky a protective ceiling. And yet they are turning away from Our signs!”* (Quran 21:32)
      *Sky’s protection:*
      The sky protects the earth from the lethal rays of the sun. If the sky did not exist then the sun’s radiation would have killed off all life on earth. It also acts like a blanket wrapped around the earth, to protect it from the freezing cold of space. The temperature just above the sky is approximately -270oC. If this temperature was to reach earth then the planet would freeze over instantly. The sky also protects life on earth by warming the surface through heat retention.
      *This is big sign for the people who don't believe in Allah*
      *Allah is our creator Who gives life and death and will again resurrect us on the Day of Judgment.*
      *So follow true path Islam*
      *Worship only Allah.*
      *There is no God except Allah and Muhammad ( PBUH ) is his messanger.*
      *Christianity :*
      Their Bible teaches them to worship only one God Allah.
      And Jesus ( PBUH ) was a messanger of Allah.
      But they are worshipping Jesus ( PBUH ) as a God. Which is totally wrong.
      So they are not following their Bible.
      Jesus ( PBUH ) never said to worship him.
      *Message for Christians from God:*
      👉They have certainly disbelieved who say,
      *"Allah(God) is the Jesus, the son of Mary"* while the
      👉(Jesus) has said,
      *"O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord."*
      *Indeed, he who associates others with Allah - Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire. And there are not for the wrongdoers any helpers.*
      Quran Al-Ma'idah (5:72)
      *Hinduism :*
      Vedas teaches to worship only one God. And don't make idols.
      Still they reject their own books and worship idols.
      They are on wrong path.
      They don't follow their vedas.
      *"Do not worship anyone besides him alone, praise him alone."*
      (Rigveda, Book 8, Hymn 1, Verse 1)
      *"They are entering darkness, those who worship the natural things(like air, water, fire etc.)*
      *They are sinking more in darkness who worship created things."*
      (Yajurveda, Chapter 40, Verse 9)
      Here as you can understand easily that all religion teaches to worship only one God.
      But people don't follow what their scripture teaches them.
      *Only muslims are worshiping one God.*
      *Islam is true religion.*
      *Our creator is only one Allah.*
      *Worship only Allah without any partners.*
      *There is no God except Allah and Muhammad ( ﷺ ) is his messanger.*
      *I have shown straight path.*
      *Choice is yours.*
      *Whether to follow true path or to to follow wrong path which will take you into darkness.*
      *Once we die our creator will again resurrect us and on that day if you have believed in Allah and follow his book Quran then you will be succeed in hereafter life.*

    • @Noone-gz8li
      @Noone-gz8li 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Iamthewarner557 lmfao 🤣

    • @Noone-gz8li
      @Noone-gz8li 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Iamthewarner557 everything written about Hinduism is wrong
      Translation of verses is wrong

  • @destyon9966
    @destyon9966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    Wait you were Sri Lankan teacher you gotta tell us some stories

    • @mallikajayasinghe2961
      @mallikajayasinghe2961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm from sri lanka

    • @Bulbulemakhluk
      @Bulbulemakhluk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mallikajayasinghe2961 what do think about muslim and Islam ?

    • @preetamyadav7952
      @preetamyadav7952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Bulbulemakhluk same like all Indian people .
      Completely hate for this islamic cult .
      Islam here is seen as some kind of demonic ideology .

    • @vihangabimsara4716
      @vihangabimsara4716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Bulbulemakhluk hmm some people distroing islam i think like ISIS

    • @ushanslife4580
      @ushanslife4580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Bulbulemakhluk most of Muslim people are very nice. They collaborate with us to celebrate our festivals also, Them. Problem is terrorist ruining bond between Ours and muslims. There is no hate. Because we are buddhists 🙏

  • @mikaylabingham487
    @mikaylabingham487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I absolutely love this video!! ( Not just because I'm Buddhist ) but because you got straight to the point and you made it very easy to understand. Thank you for making this!

  • @kgfguy3120
    @kgfguy3120 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man I found the treasure, which I was searching for many years. This channel is pure treasure.

  • @dyllonsKitchen
    @dyllonsKitchen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ayubowan 🙏
    You mentioned that u were in sri lanka, that's amazing..
    Love and blessings from sri lanka on this full moon vesak poya day to u and all the great souls..
    Happy vesak... 💙💛☸️❤️🧡

  • @gaudia3985
    @gaudia3985 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Whoa. Thanks for this! Your channel is a gem, my go-to learning resource for my historical-religio interests.

  • @eirenes4340
    @eirenes4340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Absolutely love your flow chart/timeline/tree diagrams! would you be open to creating videos on government systems around the world using your flowchart method? I'd love to see those!

    • @TruthSeeker69921
      @TruthSeeker69921 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Recorded human civilisation started around 5000bc.. Sumerians invented first writings and could be traced to 4000bc.. they invented most of our daily basic necessity today from time to wheels to buildings and the first religion written on cuneiform writings which tells about the great flood, adam and eve, multiple gods, avatars... later at 1400bc jewish religion came about and they started to pray to many Gods similar to sumerians.. at around 1500bc the indus civilisation collapsed and the dravidians went south of india and some stayed north at pakistan.. and came the aryan invasion with vedic teaching using sanskirt also at around 1500bc.. if vedic teaching was at around 1500bc, so vaishnavism which talks folktales of thousands of gods and avatars also shud hv appeared around this time.. so prevedic shaivism shud hv existed prior to 1500bc and likely the mode of religion in indus valley which goes back to 3000bc.. at 600 bc isiaih decided to merge all the gods into one because monotheism from buddhism were becoming popular at that time.. so monotheism appeared at around 600bc and then the start of christianity around 2bc.. jesus and buddha has lots of similarities so maybe both of them cud be the same person jz like how murugan cud be alexander the great.. because after buddha's teaching which made humans realise that god is only 1 (monotheism), after 600 years of realisation that god is only one emerged christianity.. so jesus christ cud be modified buddha's story.. and then at around 600AD.. muhammad modified every versions from sumerian, hebrew to bible and invented a better holy book and started propagating islam also a monotheism religion.. so basically monotheism already existed at indus civilisation and likely was prevedic shaivism.. and later as polytheism getting its peak around the world including india due to aryan invasion, buddha had to intervene and make everyone realise that god is only 1.. that is why the aryan version of hindu religion which is vaishnavism is still followed by us hindu till today.. buddhism somehow realised the actual teaching of monotheism is from prevedic shaivism not the aryan version of vaishnavism.. and then at around 320bc alexander the great came to india and only fought king porus and won but spared his life plus did not cont the war against the mauryan empire.. so he went back to babylon and died a few years after.. so the the demise made king chandragupta of maurya to make him the god of war in india as a deity because they already had thousands of gods at that time so they added him.. and that is how skanda kanda iskandar murugan is worshipped and murugan worshipping was at its peak during sangam era around 300bc and we still worship to murugan till today as the most populsr deity for the Tamils.. i think everyone shud start reading back history and to seek only for the truth, not jz blindly believe onto everything.. only the truth will prevail

  • @denyswidjaja
    @denyswidjaja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very detail yet careful narration in short duration. Thank you!

  • @sankubanku1633
    @sankubanku1633 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great Video, you have researched well. The only error I could find was that Suttas aren't necessarily a short wise saying, a lot of Buddhist Sutta's from the Pali Canon are in-depth lectures/ teachings the Buddha gave that are multiple pages long.

  • @drsibisudhan
    @drsibisudhan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I wish my history classes were this interesting

  • @dilshadsardardeen
    @dilshadsardardeen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Didn't know you were teaching in Sri Lanka, I'm a Sri Lankan can you make a video about Sri Lankan history?

    • @Admisa10
      @Admisa10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes please make a video of Sri Lanka history.....

    • @Asithan476
      @Asithan476 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Search patta history

    • @amayaweerasinghe7848
      @amayaweerasinghe7848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hye sri lankan people nice to see you all I'm huge fan of Matt vedios and history student it will be rely nice they creat a vedio about our hiatory too

    • @UsefulCharts
      @UsefulCharts  3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Got something big planned in July related to Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

    • @amayaweerasinghe7848
      @amayaweerasinghe7848 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@UsefulCharts thank you

  • @davidalvarez13
    @davidalvarez13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

  • @blindpringles
    @blindpringles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When discussing the textual sources I think it's important to remember that for a good chunk of early Buddhist history much of the cannon was still orally transmitted. The first council said to take place after the Buddha's death I believe probably happened maybe but there's virtually no proof for it. The second council not taking place much longer after the Buddha's death has much better historical backing to it, but was mostly a doctrinal dispute about monastic rules.

    • @dinuwarabinudithdesilva5464
      @dinuwarabinudithdesilva5464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bthe two happens under 100 years after the parinirvana, You can see that Dharmashoka king is the exuberator of the Buddhism

  • @nalakaekanayaka9156
    @nalakaekanayaka9156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for created this vedio. I am from Sri lanka so happy to speak about our country.

  • @medmedmed333
    @medmedmed333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I just remembered, I've been following you for 2 years now!

  • @ngounchantha792
    @ngounchantha792 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have learned the history of the Buddha including the footsteps of the Buddha, Old Path White Cloud and also continue learning his teaching like Tripitaka Sutra, Abbhidhama . He is reall highly enlightened person . The symbol of peace. Pay respects to the Buddha

  • @jitrawarrior3153
    @jitrawarrior3153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I am a sunni muslim and my best friend is a theravada buddhist. I always learn buddhism from my friend and he too learn Islam from me. Thank you for this video. I get to know buddhism more.

    • @ALIMUSLIYAR1921
      @ALIMUSLIYAR1921 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ♥️

    • @Ajamidha
      @Ajamidha ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What has islam to teach?
      Not even surface level philosophy, just stories of sky guy

    • @Revivalism23
      @Revivalism23 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Ajamidhawhy hindus are always so full of hate

    • @tuersool
      @tuersool ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He maybe convert to islam now 😂

    • @Wonderhorse9006
      @Wonderhorse9006 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Ajamidhabrother, the commentor was trying to be peaceful, why try to start fights?

  • @amoghvastrad3352
    @amoghvastrad3352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Buddha is treasure of Humanity. No matter whichever religion we follow. He will always guide us.

  • @marin_real_estate_photography
    @marin_real_estate_photography 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Very nice video. A few small things to point out. The "Th" in the word "Theravada" is pronounced in English as an aspirated, unvoiced "T" sound (similar to "Tennis" or "Texas"), not as an unvoiced "th" sound like the "th" in "Think" or "Thirty." The letter "h" is used in the transliteration to designate that the "T" is aspirated (has a puff of air). The other thing to note is that Sri Rama and Sri Krishna are usually referred to as "Avatars" of Sri Vishnu, as opposed to "incarnations."

    • @priyankazala6857
      @priyankazala6857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is there difference between incarnations and avatars

    • @sushanlamgade
      @sushanlamgade 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@priyankazala6857 I think with incarnation Lord Bishnu have had to die and then reborn as Ram and Krishna but since he never died, Ram and Krishna cannot be incarnation but rather an avatar which can be described as a clone of lord Bishnu.

    • @tampazeke4587
      @tampazeke4587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you. I was going to point out the same fact. His pronunciation of "Theravada" and "Siddhartha" was cringe worthy.

    • @priyankazala6857
      @priyankazala6857 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sushanlamgade oh. Thanks for sharing 😊

    • @opensourceworldviews
      @opensourceworldviews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tampazeke4587 He mangled most of the Sanskrit names, but ironically goes out of his way to explain how to pronounce Nanda and Naanda.

  • @NickC-Ohio
    @NickC-Ohio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You are my favorite TH-cam content creator- I'm such a big fan of the work you've done. Just a note: epecially towards the end of your videos, you tend to speak as if you were reading an algorithm. The clarity might be worthwhile but I think it might be a good idea to 'zoom out' and speak in phrases rather than word-by-word. Just a suggestion.
    Thanks again!

  • @sasmalprasanjit2764
    @sasmalprasanjit2764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Well, I like and respect you sir..but you missed very important aspect.
    Lord Buddha was born as Prince in 623 BCE , traveled Gained Wisdom in BANYAN TREE which is still PRESENT in INDIA at BODH GAYA in Mayuran kingdom during reign of KING BIMBASARA..Afterthe GREAT WAR of KING ASHOJA with KALINGA wiping out there 70% population, king ASHOKA went into grief, shock....then HE became Buddhist...and then Sent his Son & Daughter sangamitra to Sri lanka to spread Buddhism.
    ,
    To the Fact that, he used his preaching to inscribe of nkn cruelty to animals, blessing, compassionate to humans us still found in ASHOKA INSCRIPTION all over INDIA by ARCHEOLOGY SURVEY of INDIA.
    .
    FUNFACT : THE national emblem of India is of ASHOKAS PILLAR MARKING of his Kingdom

    • @maddyg3208
      @maddyg3208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I think the tree in Bodh Gaya is not the original tree but a tree grown from the cutting of a tree grown from a cutting of the original tree.

    • @akhiljayachandran3679
      @akhiljayachandran3679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      👍

    • @punchipoint8457
      @punchipoint8457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@maddyg3208 The original tree died out due to neglect. A sapling was brought from the Bo tree in Anuradhapura in Srilanka, which was a tree planted from a sapling from the original tree, some 2300 years ago. So its as good as the original one. BTW the Bo tree at Anuradhapura is supposed to be the oldest surviving planted tree.

    • @whamk8933
      @whamk8933 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Magadhan kingdom, mauryans weren't even a thing. How did ashoka meet someone who was dead for 500 years?

    • @sasmalprasanjit2764
      @sasmalprasanjit2764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@whamk8933 lol, he met Buddhist monk. Sorry , I made mistakes in typing
      KING ashoka ruled between 300-200 BCE.
      GAUTAMA was alive during 640- 500 BCE

  • @vajraheart6052
    @vajraheart6052 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    14:00 Regarding the archaeological evidence, 200 years after someone's death, is pretty definitive on his existence. Eg. some of the direct descendants would be alive and could recall from their grandparents having met that person, right.

    • @vishwakumar2864
      @vishwakumar2864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Woahh 200 years 😂.
      Do you exactly know all your great great great great grandfathers' names and where each of them was buried or cremated ? And what their exact life stories ?
      When it comes to life stories , I can't even trust all my own childhood memories , cause some false memories might have crept in !

    • @sarthak1109
      @sarthak1109 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      According to jain legends even emperor Ashoka was also realated to him .

    • @itarry4
      @itarry4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Especially not back then when it all relied basically on word of mouth as most people couldn't write and people rarely lived past 40 - 50 years you'd be lucky to get a reliable telling of someone's life especially when they are seen as devine or special so have many events tacked on to their lives or exaggerated.

    • @kevinjati7953
      @kevinjati7953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vishwakumar2864 actually yes. I know all my great great... grandfather names. Old families such as mine and families back then tend to have a history records for their family.

    • @guileniam
      @guileniam 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vishwakumar2864 my great grandfather born 100 years ago and I knew him growing up? 200 years very much in realm of possibility

  • @shramanadasdutta3006
    @shramanadasdutta3006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Hey could you do a video about what will happen if the royal family of Norway actually reach their position of taking over the royal family of Britain since they are in line of succession. You know the family tree afterwards ,or if you know of any other such instances in the world from history - what happened there?

    • @chrissmith3587
      @chrissmith3587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      To be honest if so many royals die that Norway’s royals are in line, I don’t think anyone would risk taking the throne

    • @jgr7487
      @jgr7487 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      do you mean the Danish Royal Family?

    • @bduhe219
      @bduhe219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jgr7487 they mean that Edward VII's daughter Princess Maud is the link to her descendants inheriting the British thrown. Maud is the oldest link to Edward's children that are not British born links to the thrown.

    • @pawazz
      @pawazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      or if the anglo-saxons remained in power

    • @lcmiracle
      @lcmiracle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chrissmith3587 Down with the monarchy! Off with the heads!

  • @StuartWilson-j4e
    @StuartWilson-j4e 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks so much for the super informative series of history and famiily trees! cant wait till this chart comes to your store

    • @Microsofre-eo8ko
      @Microsofre-eo8ko 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      boomer

    • @StuartWilson-j4e
      @StuartWilson-j4e 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Microsofre-eo8ko ??, far from a boomer mate

  • @Aayush191
    @Aayush191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Also make a video on Solar and Lunar dynasty of India

  • @GenXMarks
    @GenXMarks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That’s really an interesting topic to listen to. Really love the way you have explained everything…

  • @DrBrunoRecipes
    @DrBrunoRecipes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a wonderful day everyone 🌻

  • @VIPINENGLISH
    @VIPINENGLISH 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Correction:
    Buddha was not incarnation of Vishnu.Buddha was not related to any mythological god. Vishnu was a mythyological figure.

  • @agniswar3
    @agniswar3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Your channel is a jewel. I hope you make a video on the epic ' Ramayana.'
    Well if you really used to teach in Sri Lanka then you must know sinhali and tamil right?

    • @UsefulCharts
      @UsefulCharts  3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I know Sinhala fairly well but not Tamil.

    • @pinklasagna8328
      @pinklasagna8328 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@UsefulCharts හායි 😹

    • @nuclearblast5688
      @nuclearblast5688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@UsefulCharts Pls do a video on Jainism's thirtankaras..

    • @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana
      @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The issue with the Ramayana is unlike the Mahabharata the main characters aren't related to each other (technically nearly all lifeforms are related according to Hinduism, because their line eventually reaches Vishnu, with some weird exceptions like the Parvata, whose origin is a mystery). That means it would effectively be family trees.
      Although apperently Rama aggreed to marry someone from Ravana's family in a future life.

    • @sarthak1109
      @sarthak1109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana family tree of lord Ram is -:
      Ikshvaku
      Kukshi/Vikukshi
      Kakutstha or Puranjaya
      Anena or Anaranya
      Prithu
      Vishvagashva
      Ardra or Chandra
      Yuvanashva I
      Shravast
      Dirghashva
      Yuvanashva II
      Mandhata
      Purukutsa I
      Kuvalashva (Dhundhumara)
      Dridhashva
      Pramod
      Haryashva I
      Nikumbh
      Santashva
      Krishasva
      Prasenjit
      Trasadasyu
      Sambhoot
      Anaranya II
      Trashdashva
      Haryashva II
      Vasuman
      Tridhanva
      Tryyaruna
      Satyavrata or Trishanku
      Harishchandra
      Rohitashva
      Harita
      Chenchu
      Vijay[disambiguation needed]
      Rusak
      Vrika
      Bahu or Asit
      Sagara
      Asmanjasa or Asamanja
      Anshuman
      Dileepa I
      Bhagiratha
      Shrut
      Nabhag
      Ambarisha
      Sindhu Dweep
      Pratayu
      Shrutuparna
      Sarvakama
      Sudaas
      Mitrasah
      Sarvakama II
      Ananaranya III
      Nighna
      Animitra (brother of Raghu)
      Duliduh
      Dileepa II
      Raghu
      Aja
      Dasaratha
      Rama
      Kusha (contemporary of Chandravanshi King Kunti)
      Atithi (contemporary of Chandravanshi King Turvasu -2)
      Nishadha (founded Nishadha Kingdom)
      Nala II
      Nabhas
      Pundarika
      Ksemadhanva
      Devanika
      Ahinagu
      Ruru[disambiguation needed]
      Pariyatra
      Sala[disambiguation needed]
      Dala[disambiguation needed]
      Bala[disambiguation needed]
      Uktha
      Sahasrasva
      Para[disambiguation needed] II
      Chandravaloka
      Rudraksh
      Chandragiri
      Bhanuchandra
      Srutayu
      Uluka
      Unnabha
      Vajranabha
      Sankhana
      Vyusitasva
      Visvasaha
      Hiranyanabha Kausalya
      Para III (Atnara)
      Brahmistha
      Putra[disambiguation needed]
      Pusya
      Arthasidhi
      Dhruvasandhi
      Sudarsana
      Agnivarn
      Parsusruta
      Susandhi
      Amarsana
      Mahasvana
      Sahasvana
      Visrutvana
      Visvabhava
      Visvasahva
      Nagnajit
      Taksaka
      Brihadbala( contempory to mahabharat).

  • @Kimhangg67
    @Kimhangg67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Buddha was Born in nepal currently lumbuni

    • @dolma6541
      @dolma6541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kingdom of Nepal didn’t exist back then.

    • @lunatico5318
      @lunatico5318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @- king- There was no India as well...
      Indian subcontinent is different than India nation....
      Indian subcontinent is called Aryavart or Bharatvarsa which is a union of multiple kingdoms of South Asia which were not under same leadership but had similiar religion and ideology and also was a geographical land area term to specify south Asia...
      The Shakya community still dwells in Nepal....
      India and Nepal were under some empire which later broke down to small kingdoms....
      Gorkha started unification campaign by imagining the blueprint of Nepal nation in terms of land as mentioned in the Vedas for " Nepa: " as Nepalese follow Vedic culture too and made country Nepal with Kathmandu as capital. British colonized Indian kingdoms and even Kshetriyas from Nepal under Rana regime helped India in independence....
      The nation Nepal is made earlier, my friend....
      Whole Indian subcontinent has similiar culture and traditions and religious sentiments .... The people were pretty much the same except Nepalese are blends of Kirats with Kshetriyas and Brahmins .....
      India is rich in its own culture and traditions...
      Buddha left from present day - Nepal to present day - India to spread his ideology ..... India is the place where Buddha got enlightenment ...I openly admit that ! Why can't you guys admit that Buddha was born in present-day Nepal... There are many historical events and even religious events based on places in Nepal.....Even the Pandavas during their vanavasa went to hills and forests of Nepal to be away from Hastinapur .... Many events based on Shiva Purana has occured in Nepal......
      Give a space for Nepal to claim history as well......
      India ia bigger diverse nation with tons of history and it is a significant and holy place for Nepalese people as well.....
      Let others preach their ancestry as well with due respect to you guys !
      I repeat again !
      Buddha was born in Nepal and he got enlightened at India and spread his preachings in entire Asia and left his body at India !

  • @leslieferrao269
    @leslieferrao269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Very Interesting Facts in a simple unbiased presentation that is educative and opens the mind to further investigation and learning. Good Job & Hope for more such Presentations.

  • @taihuuluu
    @taihuuluu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thank ads very much, this is such a very useful information for Buddhism scholars. Great appreciation from The Vietnamese.

  • @k.s.k.7721
    @k.s.k.7721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    For anyone intrigued with this pivotal time & place on history, I highly recommend the novel "Creation" by Gore Vidal; which is the "autobiography" of a Persian ambassador and scholar who travels to India, China, Greece and the fertile crescent. He describes rhe religion, societies and creation myths of everyone he meets, as well as his military and romantic adventures. Great read, and includes excellent historical context for this amazing time in history. He is supposedly the grandson of Zoroaster and meets the Buddha, Confucius, Herodotus, Socrates, Xerxes, Darius, etc; as well as Other kings, queens, philosophers, madmen, and other actual and fictional people. of that time.

  • @einstein9901
    @einstein9901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If my history classes were more like this I sure would have been a historian

  • @spicn00
    @spicn00 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If only my teachers narrated their presentations like this guy does.

  • @bhupindertube
    @bhupindertube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's very interesting to see that most prominent religions were developed in the similar timeline.

  • @jparsit
    @jparsit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All lives are full of emptiness; I am experiencing it. After I sold everything, I have everything in my heart which full of happiness and freedom. Thank you.

  • @PastaboiAgria
    @PastaboiAgria 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    When you gonna make the chart about solar and lunar dynasty

  • @sreyneang6066
    @sreyneang6066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Your theme song is timeless .

  • @BM-zd3vs
    @BM-zd3vs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Appreciate your work.
    So much knowledge and learning system.
    Your videos are so underrated.

  • @theduke8763
    @theduke8763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In Thailand we've been used Buddha's nirvana year , now 2564, instead of Christian Era or anno Domini.

    • @wojak5308
      @wojak5308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great all Theravada country should follow this

  • @ChokyoDK
    @ChokyoDK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Imagine that in 1000 years some archeologists find some random book and makes a new religion based on the book.

    • @brentantheunis2456
      @brentantheunis2456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Harry Potter is our prophet!

    • @nayaka-zna
      @nayaka-zna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@brentantheunis2456 and Gandalf is our Messiah!

  • @JoraBhuwan
    @JoraBhuwan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I feel proud to be born in Nepal ,where light of Asia Gautam Buddha also born in Nepal

  • @dayashanthapanapitiya6385
    @dayashanthapanapitiya6385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Lord Buddha's teachings are directly focused towards psychological improvement of the people. They are educating people on how to change thinking patterns through developing cognition, wisdom etc.and to maintain a calm and quiet life style which paves the way for living peace ☮️ & harmony with others (humans and animals) in the society.
    In order to the above, it is practised to behave on perception which created by the observations collected through five senses ( eye, ear, nose, tongue and body) because of five senses are physical and could mislead.
    Example: Mirage
    Thanks for the valuable video.
    From Sri Lanka.

  • @tharukaushalya
    @tharukaushalya 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I am a theravada buddhist from Sri lanka☸️☸️🙏🙏

    • @ancientindia5464
      @ancientindia5464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am descendent of Budhha
      Our Community
      SHAKYA
      ,MAURYA(maurya empire)
      KUSHWAHA(kashi mahajanpad kashi kingdom)
      Are 3 comunities living in India are DESCENTS OF BUDHHA
      kashi subclan shakya, and shakya subclan is maurya
      Our COMMUNITY IS PURE VEGETARIAN (even not eats onions but exceptions are there),
      We are All 3 community marry only within our community clan and We are PROUD OF OUR ROYAL BLOOD LINE
      😊😊💪🏿💪🏿

    • @chrisrichardson8988
      @chrisrichardson8988 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was I not your brother in a previous life? Or, a sister, or mother, father? In fact, what is more, the tears you have cried in your previous lives, or all the water in all the oceans of the World?

    • @mahaur-l7r5v
      @mahaur-l7r5v 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ancientindia5464you are froud shakya i know yoúr real cast mura murav kacchi not real shakya the real shakya are koliya shakya understand mr. fraud 😝

    • @Dickos12
      @Dickos12 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ancientindia5464 No one asked

  • @bobcharlie2337
    @bobcharlie2337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    These charts ARE THE BEST!!!

    • @pradeepkarn7724
      @pradeepkarn7724 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Buddha fallow dharma like as every hindu but a special sect of dharma

  • @MG-vo7is
    @MG-vo7is 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My understandings:
    5:01 He was known as Prince Siddhartha and took the name Gautama when he became a monk.
    14:56 Buddhism spread from India to China. From Wikipedia ... "Besides the large collections in Pali and Chinese, there are also fragmentary collections of early Buddhist materials in Sanskrit, Khotanese, Tibetan and Gāndhārī." While the Chinese canons may be the sources for Mahayana Buddhism in China, Japan and Korea ... this video completely missed the Mahayana Buddhism in India, Nepal and Tibet. The Dalai Lama came from Tibet, and these traditions use non-Chinese Mahayana texts.

    • @i_love_tibet7001
      @i_love_tibet7001 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes..... he missed that part and Bhutan as well.

    • @shrutitomar
      @shrutitomar 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      His name was actually Siddharth Gautam, the whole thing. (Gautam derived from "Gautami", his mother's name, the one who raised him. This was a common practice back in those times)
      After attainment of Nirvana, he was called Buddha, by the people & followers. He was also called Tathagata.
      Sakya Muni was found in Ashokan pillars, which just means - a Muni (sage) from Sakya tribe.

  • @sushweyi
    @sushweyi ปีที่แล้ว

    bro's become my favorite wide explaining history channel within a day

  • @kirandeepchakraborty7921
    @kirandeepchakraborty7921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I enjoy your vidoes so so much. Thanks for such in-depth research and understanding

  • @ตุ๊ต๊ะแชนเเนล
    @ตุ๊ต๊ะแชนเเนล 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    เมืองไทยเป็นเมืองพุทธ เมืองแห่งพระพุทธศาสนา เมืองแห่งรอยยิ้มและน้ำใจ สยามเมืองยิ้ม❤️🙏🏻🇹🇭

    • @JackHansan
      @JackHansan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      เค้าพูดถึงพระพุทธเจ้ามาจากไหนมีตัวตนจริงหรือไม่ เค้าไม่ได้พูดถึงเมืองไทยจ้า อย่ามั่ว คนไทยนับพุทธศาสนาใช่แต่เค้าไม่สนใจเกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย

    • @ตุ๊ต๊ะแชนเเนล
      @ตุ๊ต๊ะแชนเเนล ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JackHansan ยังไงเมืองไทยคือคือเมืองพุทธครับ จบ

  • @narmyjenisha5555
    @narmyjenisha5555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Yes buddha did exist and his bloodline is Shakya. They now live in kathmandu.

  • @narratordru7188
    @narratordru7188 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really love your charts / videos, and i link them often, when on forums, such as Quora. I especially noted in this video your mention of the divide between ages, specifically the divide between oral traditions and written works. It would be great if you could do a video on the significance between all of the ages in your chart. Again, excellently presented. Thank you!

    • @UsefulCharts
      @UsefulCharts  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do that in this video: th-cam.com/video/__BaaMfiD0Q/w-d-xo.html

    • @narratordru7188
      @narratordru7188 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@UsefulCharts Watched it. Excellent as always. Thanks! Would love something on the history of religion, from the earliest (prehistory, pre-writing) to the modern age.

  • @newvloger2219
    @newvloger2219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Buddha was born in Nepal ❤️🇳🇵

    • @naveen6517
      @naveen6517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Buddha was born in india but today's it is Nepal ♥️🤝

    • @anothermouth7077
      @anothermouth7077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Funny how people love to feel important on trivial things where in fact technically Nepal didn't even exist... Same can be said for "India" but not really

    • @shasha0076
      @shasha0076 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@anothermouth7077india existed but not the name🤣🤦 it was jambudwip, aryawart, bharatvarsha, bharat(india/hindustan/al hind, etc etc)

  • @puma1304
    @puma1304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    into the "archaeological record" we could also mention the excavations made in and around Bodhgaya, which record the temple once erected by Asoka to commemorate the place where Sidharta became Buddha (through awakening). Other excavations of old monastic complexes made mainly in Pakistan (which were well known to the greeks of the bactrian kingdoms) could also be cited... etc. AND when mentioning other great philosophers and/or spiritual leaders of that period Lao Tzu should deserve much more attention, to my taste, much more than Kung Fu Tse, because his teachings are very much aligned in the spiritual tradition that inspired the Buddha, whereas Kung Fu Tze was rather a "keeper of traditions and morals" not a spiritual leader. In some sense also Mahavira belongs to the realm of the "enlightened"...

  • @burneyvisser
    @burneyvisser 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I thought you might follow the family tree to the present day

    • @freyesha4110
      @freyesha4110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What?there are people from the great lord Buddha 's family today??😲😲😲😲😲

    • @KeithR2002
      @KeithR2002 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@freyesha4110 Possible there are many descendents in North India (Not directly from the Buddha because his only son also became a monk)

    • @sarthak1109
      @sarthak1109 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think he will do it from Ikshvaku.

  • @dd-uf9nw
    @dd-uf9nw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kosala was not only Nepal it also had part of tarai of modern day India places like Bahraich, sravasti which are city in UP , India.

  • @iturhsyrtsahs
    @iturhsyrtsahs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great video, very informative! Just a note - Kshatriya is pronounced as sha-triya, not k-shatriya. The k is supposed to be silent. But other than that, great pronunciation of our (admittedly) complicated names. Indian names are much easier to pronounce in Hindi in the Devnagari script, than in any other language!

    • @RakeshGupta-fh5vu
      @RakeshGupta-fh5vu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The "ksh" is not supposed to be silent,it is supposed to be pronounced just not the way he pronounced it. Always remember Sanskrit is a very "phonetic" language and there is no concept of silent words in Sanskrit grammar (or hindi grammar).
      For eg: "अक्षत(AKSHAT)" here the "ksh(क्ष)" in akshat is pronounced also "क्षत्रिय(kshatriya)" and "शत्रिय(shatriya)" are pronounced differently,the former word "शत्रिय(shatriya)" does not mean anything.
      not a hate comment just a correction.hope it Helps.
      Radhe radhe ☺️

    • @iturhsyrtsahs
      @iturhsyrtsahs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RakeshGupta-fh5vu very true! you've explained it really well :)

    • @spilltea4241
      @spilltea4241 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Other Indian languages are much closer to sanskrit pronunciation than hindi

    • @user-xnex
      @user-xnex 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Ksh" don't exist in paali. Only in Sanskrit. As Sanskrit is developed from paali.

  • @sugam_24
    @sugam_24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Buddha was born in Nepal.🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
    Thanks man for our history.🙏🙏🙏

    • @simulify8726
      @simulify8726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And he died in India, both Nepal and India are god's land

    • @Asithan476
      @Asithan476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@simulify8726 a Buddha isn't a god

    • @AnuDugala
      @AnuDugala 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Asithan476 he was an avatar of god

    • @Asithan476
      @Asithan476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@AnuDugala According to Buddhism a Buddha isn't a god

    • @zhangzongchang1057
      @zhangzongchang1057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AnuDugala avatar lol. Get it? Cuz the cartoon.

  • @YogaSriLankaVillaDeZoysa
    @YogaSriLankaVillaDeZoysa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very informative and above all, is a fair presentation and conclusion. Thank you

  • @ngangsom2909
    @ngangsom2909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love you channel because I really interested about Lord Buddha.