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This is a bit of a rosy view of acceptance. Buddhists thats painstakingly built the Ajanta and Ellora cave complexes weren't accepted. They were wiped out by th
by poeji 8y ago
This is a bit of a rosy view of acceptance. Buddhists thats painstakingly built the Ajanta and Ellora cave complexes weren't accepted. They were wiped out by the Hindu Priesthood that felt threatened. Human beings are capable of great stupidity irrespective of what culture they have preserved.
There are great lessons in both, what they got right and what they got wrong.
- snambi 8y agoThere is no war or destruction caused by the Hindu Priests in the entire history of Hindus. They were neither trained in warfare nor they were taught to destroy/kill others. Most of these priests don't even touch meat or can stand the smell of meat. There is no way the priests can unleash violence.
- danans 8y agoI don't think that the process I described happened peacefully, or that nobody was wronged or injured in the process - I just observed that the result is a greater state of preservation of what preceded. But even in the case of Buddhism, one outcome of the repression of Buddhism was the coopting of large parts of it, at least the parts that didn't threaten the Hindu social structure. Whether or not it is widely known today, Buddhism had a major reformatory impact on what we call Hinduism today.