Among them, Christianity originated in West Asia and its believers are spread throughout Europe, America and Oceania. But there is a knowledge that is even colder than cold knowledge. Compared with the first two religions, Buddhism unexpectedly suffered a fault during its dissemi

has a cold knowledge: The three major religions of the world, , actually originated in Asia.

Among them, Christianity originated in West Asia, and believers are spread throughout Europe, America and Oceania .

Islam originated from Arabian Peninsula , and believers radiate to Asia and Africa.

. Buddhism originated in ancient India, and most believers are distributed in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

But there is a knowledge that is even colder than cold knowledge. Compared with the first two religions, Buddhism unexpectedly suffered a fault during its dissemination.

After Buddhism has developed for more than a thousand years, it has inexplicably declined, and has never recovered from its past glory.

This is not sensational. If you don’t believe it, ask the Indians today, they have long disbelief of the so-called Buddhism, but have pushed Brahmanism to the altar and worshipped it as the state religion.

1. No destruction will not be established. The "destruction" and "establishment" of Buddhism

As the Indians said, the development time of Brahmanism far exceeded that of Buddhism. As early as 3,500 years ago, Hindu began to appear in its prototype, and its formation time coincided with the time when the Aryan invaded India.

Aryan , who moved south from Europe, set up the caste system , in order to enjoy the interests of the conquerors, and forced the local indigenous people to serve them.

From then on, the caste system was completely bound to Brahminism, and took root in India for thousands of years

In fact, ordinary people cannot imagine how terrible the caste system is, because this system always affects the lives and ways of thinking of Indians, and all those who believe in have become slaves to this system.

However, the most terrifying thing about it is that under the brainwashing of the caste system, the various classes in India are not circulated with each other. Over time, the upper classes are rich and the lower classes are poor and ignorant for thousands of years, and have never had a chance to turn over and fall directly into the vicious circle of self-proven by fools.

Therefore, Brahminism, which takes the caste system as its religious basis, was eventually formed more than a hundred years earlier than Buddhism.

But for more than a hundred years, the entire Indian class began to solidify, and all Indians learned to respect Brahmin class.

In the interpretation of Brahmanism, the Brahman class is the highest level of the caste system, belongs to clergy, has supreme power, and is born to be the master served by other classes.

Everything will be reversed. The various constraints of Brahmanism have long caused dissatisfaction among some rebels.

In 623 BC, a man named Gautama appeared. According to legend, when he was born, he pointed to the sky and the earth, claiming that "I am the only one in heaven and earth."

This arrogant person in people's eyes at that time was the founder of Buddhism, which is the Sakyamuni Buddha in the Chinese people's mouth.

When Gautama saw and heard what he saw, he found that there were class differences everywhere in the land under his feet. People lived a very depressed and miserable life because of class isolation. In order to break the status quo, Gautama proposed a very advanced word "Equality of all beings". The four words

are like the hammer of Thunder, bringing a heavy blow to the originally depressed and closed class society. The consciousness of " caste " in people's minds began to collapse, and more and more people began to abandon the caste system and explore the path to equality.

Even Gautama himself did not know that Buddhism he founded was prosperous from the very beginning and spread all the way to China.

But just conquering the country is not enough, you must also be able to defend the country. After the founder Gautama, a person who truly "guards the country" appeared, and he was the famous Mauryan dynasty .

According to the caste system, King Ashoka belongs to the second level and has a lower status than Brahmins. However, this religion of theocracy is greater than that of the royal power, which makes Ashoka unbearable.

In order to crack down on Brahmanism, King Ashoka took the guise of "equality of all beings" and strongly supported Buddhism to the whole country.

It is not difficult to see that the origin of Buddhism has a lot to do with caste oppression.

With the support of Ashoka, Buddhism has completely embarked on the path of being proud, and its influence has quickly spread to the entire eastern Asia.

In 2 BC, Buddhism was introduced to my country across the Himalayas and quickly occupied the mainstream, becoming a major religion that can compete with Taoism .

At the same time, the upper Buddhist Buddhism spread to Southeast Asia and became the national religion of Cambodia and Siam .

In 538 AD, Buddhism was spread to Japan through sea routes, and started a journey of overseas scriptures.

The stars are changing, Buddhism is growing in its development, and its influence can be summarized in the countries of East Asia at its peak. But who would have thought that when Buddhism was in its incense in other countries it gradually disappeared in India, its birthplace.

2. Death

In fact, the decline of Buddhism in India is not accidental. Its decline comes from three major factors:

First, the invasion of the Islamic religion.

300 years ago, the central government of ancient India collapsed, and the White Huns from Central Asia took the opportunity to invade ancient India. They smashed Buddha statues when they saw them and burned temples when they saw them. The originally brilliant and brilliant Buddhist culture went on a decadence. And this is just the beginning. Five hundred years later, the Arabs from Central Asia once again occupied India.

As we all know, the Arabs believed in Islam, and they brought their own national culture when they invaded ancient India.

When the Arabs' iron hooves walked through every corner of ancient India, all the temples wherever they went were turned into ruins.

In 1203 AD, in a fire, the Arabs destroyed the national monastery Chaojie Temple, which became a symbol of Buddhism's fall from the altar.

If the West cannot be without Yarusha Leng, then Buddhism must never lose Chaojie Temple.

When the last tiles of Chaojie Temple fall from the eaves, Indian Buddhism inevitably goes to decline.

Secondly, the temple economy hinders development.

Does anyone still remember the "Three Martial Arts and One Sect" incident in ancient my country that destroyed Buddhism? When Buddhism flourished and the temple economy was prosperous, more and more people came to temples to become monks in order to escape the world.

These monks do not work, do not know how to work, live a free life with incense money, and occupy a large amount of land to expand temples, which seriously hinders social development and arouses resentment from the people. Water can carry a boat and can also overturn it. When the people and the country are dissatisfied, Buddhism will sooner or later be dropped from the altar.

This is true in China and India.

Furthermore, Buddhism cannot shake the caste system.

Thinking about the slogan of "Equality of All Beings" in order to break the Brahman caste system. However, since they originated from the same country, the two religions are closely related. For example, they both pay attention to reincarnation. People with lower castes are destined to suffer in this life. Only by enduring and practicing can one become a good fetus in the next life. This idea is obviously in conflict with "equality of all beings".

When Indians believed in it for thousands of years, they suddenly realized that the so-called "equality of all beings" was just a big cake drawn by Buddha .

It seems that even though Buddhism wants to break the caste stereotype, it has little resistance, and in the end it can only achieve the same fate as Brahmanism.

Thinking about it, King Ashoka worked hard to build temples in order to promote Buddhism, but when King Ashoka left, this kind of religion that contained political factors would sooner or later be overthrown by the new regime.

To put it bluntly, the rise and fall of any religion will suffer from the common people. When Buddhism only emphasizes being away from the world and becoming a monk, the world will inevitably be occupied by Brahmins, which pays more attention to reality and system, so Buddhism completely faded out of India.