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Umm.... yeah.... most of us don't believe in that. I am not very deep in my customs, but pretty sure we don't eat Hindu Brahmins.

It is not about Theravada but about the way it is practised. For example, Theravada is also the official faith in Vietnam (their communism is only a political structure). Sri Lankan style is a bit rigid, somewhat like a hybrid between, say, Hindu Dharma & Christianity. The festival style is very...

Depends on which path and where you are getting ordained. There is no formal method except being ordained at any of the major monasteries. Once you go there, you will first be explained and asked why you want to become a Buddhist (Tantra or otherwise, that's up to you). Then the monks will...

These are not Buddhists by choice but just Ambedkarites who consider him as a prophet and hate mainstream Hinduism. They are no different from the converted evangelicals and give a bad name to us Buddhists. They defy the very teachings of rationale and balance in Buddh dharma. How can one blame...

Correction. If India was a Hindu nationalist single-party state (a nationalist version of CCP), then the relations would have been must stronger culturally yes. Today's India is very British-like, a lot culturally marxist (the term meaning hating one's own culture and suppressing it)...

It didn't fail, its just that the notion of a 'different religion' as desired by some power hungry monks did not pick ground. Most Hindus maybe don't directly worship in our temples, but more Hindus attend our temples than our own people themselves. Except of Mahayana and Vajrayana sect which...