Spread of Buddhism in Asia: Through war or conversion?
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The historical Buddha might not have recognised the “Buddhism” being practised in the northwest of the subcontinent in the 1st-2nd century CE. Anirudh Kanisetti explains that it was really from this highly diverse region of Gandhara that Buddhism, or to be precise Gandharan-not “Indian”- Buddhism, embarked on its global conquest.
Sources:
Brancaccio, Pia, and Kurt A. Behrendt (eds). Gandhāran Buddhism: archaeology, art, texts. UBC Press, 2006.
Neelis, Jason. Early Buddhist transmission and trade networks: Mobility and exchange within and beyond the northwestern borderlands of South Asia. Brill, 2010.
Salomon, Richard. "The Inscription of Senavarma, King of Oi." Indo-Iranian Journal 29, no. 4 (1986): 261-293.
Salomon, Richard. "Gāndhārī in the worlds of India, Iran, and Central Asia." Bulletin of the Asia Institute 21 (2007): 179-192.
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I think you guys should collaborate with some animation guys and make this more in an animated movie format for catching viewers' eyes..
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There used to be debates and spritual powers ( sastartha , Riddhi pratiharya) organised by kings and Buddhist masters have won all those with their logic and spritual power and lossers became desicple of these winner that is how Buddhism spread like wild fire .And as Buddhism is a wisdom based path elite group of society adept and petronised it at first and gradually other section of society accepted it too. There was a time when 75% of Indian sub-continent and 75% of Asia were Buddhist in a history.
From where did you got this 75% data??
Is it an ambetkarite data?
True , Even 8 Mall king of mall mahajanpad accepted Buddhism. Anandpal one of mall king was disciple of Buddhism. They renounce their kshtriya dharma for Buddhism. I belong to same community. Mall of kushinagar adopted Buddhism and buddha got mahaparinirvan in kushinagar. Buddhism spread through peace....... Buddhism is peaceful and based on equality...
Buddhism was never a dominant religion in the Indian subcontinent. However it did have a considerable following in what is today Pakistan and Afghanistan.
I’d like to hear about the role of the Buddhist Bhikkhunī Tripitakācarya Buddhamitra in the spread of Buddhism, especially Sarvāstvāda Buddhism-and Buddhism with Buddha images!-in the Kushan period.
Namo Buddhaya Vairocana.
Your explanation of how Buddhism spread across Asia 🕉
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How war and conversion shaped its propagation
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Buddhism spread like a wildfire because of it's logical and scientifical and experiencial .Kings used to organize debates where Buddhist masters defeated all of them. And in Buddhism there is a term pure and enlightened unbroken lineage ( suddha siddha parampara) where agam and adhigam ( pure interpretation and realization are pass down to every generation ) this is how Buddhist interpretation and realization continued uncontaminated . Only authorized masters are allowed to teach that is why one cannot find self claimed enlightened guru in Buddhism .
This series is necessary. For last 150 years we have been peddled lies about how oppressive and primitive Hinduism is. As though Hindus persecuted Buddhists, Sikhs etc. As though we were different religions throughout history. Videos like this helps gain clarity about the true history. Budhists, Sikhs, Hindus, Jains might have fought with each other, but not because of religious/ theological differences as claimed through lies peddled by Historians of the like of Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib.
There is no such thing as Hinduism. At least read court ruling.
It's just listed by British who were not Muslims.
As Lord Buddha has said that do petronise Shramans ( Buddhist,Jain, shaivait,Vaisnav) and Brahmins ( those days Brahmins used to be different from now) and Buddhist kings used to petronize all equally . Whereas, there were non buddhist kings in history like King Sasanka ( who order his army to kill buddhist or get killed by him ) who procecuted all Buddhist and destroyed stupas and vihara's from kerela ( It was the first country in indian-subcontinent where buddhism was lost , it is written in oldest biography of shankaracharya ( shankara digvijaya and shankara vijaya) and shankaracharya himslef took sashanka army in conquest himself) and he too cut the Boddhi tree and burn the stump . Mihirkul ( shaivait king) destroyed 16000 stupas and killed many buddhist from kashmir to Afganistan) these are facts which makes Buddhism weak and last blow came from Turkish invasion and distruction of all Mahavihara's . We have to learn from history so that we can learn from our mistakes but not to hold gurge .🙏🙏🙏
@@urgenlama7302 almost all of what you said is either factually wrong or misleading, shankara and what ever little persecution that happened had none to little impact of buddhism's decline. Also the bodhi tree was never cut down, it is still standing near the mahabodhi temple in bodhgaya.
@@hiruzenmonofuke7344 sorry but that's the actual truth you believe it or not.
@@manaspratimdas707 that is true actually, I have read a lot of history books, religious persecution in India before Islamic invasion was very rare. That is why the parsis fled to India to escape islamic persecution.
Interesting!!!! Must get this book
How much of Buddhism has influence in contemporary Andhra Pradesh with respect to daily practises, trade or social order.?
I used to listen to his podcast....this guy can be ideological....but lets see what the future holds.
Full series of this?
Recently a Buddhist stupa remaining were found in palur port odisha. It dates 2000yrs ago
Is this reuploaded? What happened to the old video?
Please be slow. You speak very fast. There should be pauses too. You are explaining history . Listener needs to make a picture in mind about the location you are talking as there are a number of them in the video.
Do 2x
He is perhaps reading the script rather than speaking
"Gandharan not Indian" what is India for you??, What is the point in saying this.
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@@RKV8527 ??!! Please elaborate your text, I can't contemplate it.
Bgrahmin quota people 😂🤣😂🤣
Gandhar is preset day Afghanistan hence not India. It’s not that complicated.
@@adity126 Here he is talking about history, not present day, by that logic Afghanistan is not Buddhist neither do they care about any Buddhist heritage 😂😂😂, it's complicated. It's people like you who make it black and white.
No religion can flourish without political support and cultural domination. That was the reason spread of Buddhism and decline in India.
Budhhism was rebranded and was turned into godly religion by Muslims when they called people Hindu by bringing Brahmins in India to colonize.
@@Q_QQ_Q what??
@@jayantkamble6082 ??
Don't smoke weed please
It is vague to say so . There are many political reasons and prosecution and destruction that is the reason how buddhism vanished from indian Indian subcontinent.
Stop using the derogatory cult to describe dharmic religions, never heard you speak of mohd cult, kaba cult, jesus cult ,cross cult
What about shiva cult vishnu cult krishna cult ram cult
Gandhara till it existed as cultural-political entity was Indian
What has braghmin quota people got to do with it?
yeah, a political concept of india did not exist, but there definitely was a concept of a indian people and culture or at least similar cultures of the subcontinent , just like there was an idea of a hellenic culture.
Factors affecting the disappearance of Buddhism from India could be associated with the lesser Zeal on families of the volunteers/followers of Buddha
Tbh, I believe Buddhism was more prominent in cities of that time. In villages, people may have worshipped local deities and may have followed animistic culture. It was only in 12-13th century that the Hinduism we see today emerged where Gods like Shiva, Vishnu, Shakti, etc gained important status within society. Even today, most rural families have family deity, village deity and Kuldevta/kuldevis (Village deity is different than Kuldevtas/devis) which are quite important on occasions like marriage, child birth, etc. Then there are Gods like Shiva, Hanuman, Shakti, Krishna, etc who are worshipped on daily basis with large number of temples across country.
Also, most rich people at that time used to donate lots of money for religious purposes to religious teachers/shrines irrespective of religion. This is why we find ruins of different religious places together. This is something they do at present as well.
Budhhism was rebranded and was turned into godly religion by Muslims when they called people Hindu by bringing Brahmins in India to colonize.
That is not the reasons. Buddhism emphasis on both Upasaka and Sangha.
@@jayantkamble6082 its the morphing it into godly religion or rhaminical religion .
@@Q_QQ_Q what do you mean godly religion?
Wherever you say Central Asia you refer to West Asia. Learn geography before embarrassing yourself.
I am sorry to say, your stories appears more divisive then unifying.
But it’s not a story. For good or for bad These are facts.
@@adity126have you read Oldest biography of Shankaracharya ( shankara vijay and shankara digvijay) you will have a glance how non buddhist prosecuted Buddhist and destroyed Stupas and Vihara's.
Bfrahmin quota people
Nbgahmin quota people never forget to snuck in their propaganda just in time 🤣😂
Print = 3rd world journalism.
Go decolonize your self before speaking about Indian History.
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