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Yes I have. I agree that there are originalities but my point is Buddha didn't invent anything new. So what was the way he taught? Serve him and gain merits for future lives. Buddha contradicted himself on several occasions. He had no knowledge of the natural world nor anything more complex.

I don't know about Plato's chit chats. But Greeks world view and rationality is something that I do not see from Indians.

He never did. If he did so no one would've believed him and none would have worshipped and sustained him. The magic always lies with the illusion. What philosophy? He was paraphrasing tweaked version of Hindu philosophy. That was nothing new. He didn't even know how and why the rain falls. Do...

That's because he didn't know. He was very good at keeping the unknown a mystery among his followers. But there were some slip ups. One time when asked about how sudden rain occurs he is reported saying that sudden rain occurs due to rain making gods are having sex in the clouds. He was just...

It has been so for the past 1000 or so years of Chola conquest.

Dharmapala was a racist bigot. Though he is the father of Buddhist revival. But I agree with you.. even in Sri Lanka the concepts of earlier folk religions are present in Sinhalese Buddhism.

yeah so?

Classic evasive maneuver. Despite several slip ups he was able to side step critical problems like these by saying not to think of these sort of questions.

Oh I highly doubt that

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No I think that in India Buddhism was mostly spread among the merchant class (Vaisya). Many of Buddha's disciples were merchants or traders. Whereas Hinduism was practiced by the common folk such as farmers. That may be the reason for the decline of Buddhism as a whole because there was no link...

Whatever you say boss... (Didn't realized that this thread existed) Well, what I really want to emphasize is that how the 7th century Hindu revival had uprooted the natural bond between then Vedic Hinduism and Buddhism in India. Many of the present Hindu holiest shrines from North to South...

Following is an excerpt from the Book titled "Ashoka - The search of India's Lost Emperor" by Charles Allan "Tucked away in this same account by Stirling is a reference to an enormous stone pillar seen by him inside the Hindu temple of Bhaskareshvara in Bhubaneshwar. It appeared to Stirling...