Autor: Danijel Turina Datum: 2000-11-06 18:04:53 Grupe: alt.language.hindi,alt.yoga,alt.buddhism Tema: Re: Vanishing of Buddhism from India Linija: 26 Message-ID: oeod0toarnpqnaumm73u2iihbegs2cqs21@4ax.com |
X-Ftn-To: hanu_man@mailcity.com 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. -- Homepage: http://www.danijel.org |