Why did saars stop believing in Buddhism? it’s clearly superior to Hinduism.
>>16532619There was this dude named Adi Shancharkya who apparently disproved Buddhism and proved Hinduism was correct.Personally I like Jainism the most in theory. If the whole world was Jain there'd be world peace.
>>16532627Vedanta as a study is mostly concerned with demonstrating why Adi "monists are too dumb to count past 1" Shankara is wrong and dealing with the Buddha's preemptive refutation of him. Also, Buddhism in India had collapsed about 200 years prior to Shankara being born due to Muslims destroying the centers of Buddhism.
>>16532627>naked dudes with Covid masks and brooms sweeping away cockroaches>their immune systems are still killing bacteria>get reincarnated as a Brazilian meat monkeyLmao
Genocided by muslim turks. Hindus and jains still had enough of a martial tradition to resist occupation and continue their religions. Buddhists were either stamped out or forced to convert.
>>16533089>jains still had enough of a martial tradition???
>>16533094The jains believe that nonviolence is the highest religion and second-highest is violence in defense of it. You can find historical examples of Jain military leaders. Whereas Buddhism didn't develop that in India, only a few Mahayana strains in Tibet and East Asia really sanctioned militarism.
>>16532627>JainismOut of all the nastika schools Jainism is the most retarded, arguably more retarded than the Charvakas, because at least the Charvaka philosophy is internally coherent. Jainism is just spicy materialism. Buddhists were right to criticism the extremism in their ethics and their intellectually bankrupt metaphysical beliefs.
>>16532629If the Advaita tradition of Vedanta actually became the dominant school of Hinduism it would actually look a lot like some schools of Buddhism. Ramanuja and later Vedantins corrupted Upanishadic teachings with teachings from Vaishnava poets and gurus. The bhakti movement was possibly the worst thing to happen to Hinduism, and it’s the reason why “Hinduism” as a religion looks like a crude ooga booga religion to this day.
>>16532619Theological innovations in Hinduism (essentially India-friendly Buddhism rip-offs), barbarian Invasions (Hephthalites, Huns, Muslims, etc) destroying the monasteries and proving Buddhism as weak, the resurgence of the Brahmin caste as something with actual power due to these theological innivations in Hinduism. These all conbined and resulted in the expulsion of Buddhism from the Indosphere outside Sri Lanka.>>16532627I like Sikhism, it's very cool. If I ever go to Canada I might try to visit a temple and talk to someone willing about it.
>>16532619A civilized religion cannot be stewarded by a vulgar people. Look at the state of their most holy river, would you really trust these people with any religion that isn't fecal worship?
I don't trust Indians nor do I trust Buddhists to answer this question
>>16535169>Theological innovations in Hinduism (essentially India-friendly Buddhism rip-offs)The only thing that comes close to this is Advaita Vedanta, and maybe the Sankhya tradition, which also happens to be the ancestor of Buddhism.These schools made the ancient Vedic religion obsolete, there was no need for animal sacrifice and rituals were not so important to liberation. Almost every other school of philosophy in India, although they may have become more complex, cannot really rival Buddhism, because they all stress bhakti/devotion as the path to liberation and claim that God/Brahman is personal. The most powerful Buddhist philosophers like Nagarjuna, Dignaga, Chandrakiti etc., demolish these ideas and there is really no refutation of them.>I like Sikhism, it's very cool.Sikhism is the bastard child of Vaishnavism and Islam. Indian philosophy corrupted by Abrahamic ideas. And as far as modern religions go, it’s not even that cool in its aesthetics.
>>16533089>martial tradition to resist occupation and continue their religions. Buddhists were either stamped out or forced to convert./threadburning down the main buddhist centres of Nalanda Mahavihara and Uddandapura was probably enough
>>16532619because buddhism was confined to monks and the elite it had no rituals to appeal to the average normalfag, monks stopped interacting with society and retreated into their monasteries obsessing over metaphysics, fighting with other sects, and making up new sutras , seething brahmins tricked the average pleb by absorbing the Buddha into the millions of rituals and native gods, muzzie invasions burning down buddhist universities,and killing monks. Shankara and his crypto-buddhist posse came a couple hundred years after >>16532629to put in the final nail by replacing nirvana with moksha and brahman, crypt-dindoo monks infecting buddhism by cramming some sort of eternal self back in.
>>16535481This.Other religions make it a goal to grift the thought virus to as many normalfags as possible. Buddhist monks did not capitalize on this, so they slowly died out whenever the aristocracy didn't actively promote them.
>>16535760This is also why Mahayana spread into East Asia instead of Theravada or Sarvastivada, because Mahayana teachings are 90% grift. If anything it's a miracle Theravada has survived as long as it has in Lanka and SE Asia.
>>16532619Caste system. Even though none of them are pure blooded enough anymore to claim place at the top they still use it to rank themselves by relative whiteness for advantage.
>>16532619Buddhism was fully absorbed by Hinduism.
