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hanu_man@mailcity.com wrote:
>Looking for decent non-politically motivated info on how and why
>buddhism vanished so quickly from india in the 12th century after being
>the mainstream religion.

Shankaracarya offered better explanations, and so buddhism became
obsolete and vanished. Buddhism has an inherent flaw in lack of
definition of the positive principle behind things. Shankara put
things in a way that explained all the things that buddhism did, and
also those that it didn't. 
Buddhism claims that there is nothing eternal either within a man or
without him. Vedanta claims that the only thing that really exists is
brahman, which is eternal, and that what we perceive as the world is
in fact a mystery: it doesn't exist at all, because brahman is the
only reality, but it does exist, because we can perceive it. In
realization, one sees himself as brahman and nothing else, and knows
that only I Am.
Budhism had no answer to Shankaracarya, and he was very, very
convincing, and he defeated all the buddhist scholars on his great
tour of India. They all had to admit that he has better arguments, and
most of them probably became his disciples.

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