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Buddhism was under pressure from other religions: Followers of Mohamed destroyed Buddhist centers of learning in India so that new disciples had no where in the country to go to be taught the Buddha's way, and the Buddha got co-opted into what would come to be known as the Hindu pantheon of gods, as an avatar of Vishnu, with the resulting loss of his revolutionary insights that contradict some of Hinduism.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt was basically due to the fact that Buddhism was no longer patronized by the Brahmins and Kshatriya state rulers as it was during the Emperor Ashoka's dynastic rule and they were often subjected to persecution and massacre by these Hindu rulers. Later on the Arab and central asian invasions did no good to this already extinct religion in India.
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∙ 13y agoBuddhism died out in India for several reasons. The ones most often cited are the effects of the Buddha being co-opted into the pantheon of Hindu gods (where is he now seen as an avatar of Vishnu) and a campaign by Islamic believers to destroy the centers where new disciples could learn from old masters.
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∙ 12y agoIt was basically due to the fact that Buddhism was no longer patronized by the Brahmins and Kshatriya state rulers as it was during the Emperor Ashoka's dynastic rule and they were often subjected to persecution and massacre by these Hindu rulers. Later on the Arab and central asian invasions did no good to this already extinct religion in India.
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∙ 12y agoActually, it didn't. Just the opposite happened. For about 200 years Buddhism had a local small following. Then as merchants converted to Buddhism and they traveled to different lands they brought Buddhism with them and then the number of followers grew dramatically.
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∙ 12y agoHinduism was easier to follow, and also because Hinduism overtook it
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∙ 14y agoBuddhism lost its popularity basicly because Hinduism was easier to follow.
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