YOu chinese people are so full of

Go back to your den and smoke some more opium.



Let us know when majority of chinese are buddhists and avoiding bodhisattvas.

Oh, and let us know when you chinese stop eating dogs, cats, rats, insects etc.

^^ I think Superhominid is Indian, but don't worry, at the rate you're going you won't be around long enough for that to matter

Your really are smoking opium...but I don't know if it's the variety grown in the east or in the west (Afghanistan )

Making bombastic know-it-all statements about a civilization that even the Indian Constitution has failed to define as a religion.

Under The National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992 Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism are minority communities

Also the Hindu Marriage Act ard specifically denoted separately from Hinduism
http://www.sudhirlaw.com/HMA55.htm
so STFU

yes karma is god-controlled in Hinduism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Hind...The_role_of_God

And no I'm not doing opium

As per the Indian Constitution anyone who is NOT a Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, is a Hindu....meaning that Hinduism is not a narrowly-defined organized religion.

As per the Supreme Court ruling on Hindutva....the words Hindu, Hinduism, Hindutva do not denote a religion but a civilization.

So making statements like "such and such is the practice IN HINDUISM" is a falsehood....Hindu teachings and practices keep changing and evolving with the times. There are schools of Hindu philosophy that even deny the existence of god...others that deny reincarnation or life after death...nobody ever tortured them or hounded them because of their varying opinions. Thus religious tolerance in inherent in Hinduism.



A very un-Hindu attitude

If you can't handle differences of opinion you STFU and smoke some dope

I know somewhere in the Indian Constitution Buddhism and Jainism are separated. Every news article that I've read on Buddhist movements in India have cited that

Why did Jainism survive in India....when its relations with the Hindu civilization were similar to those of the Buddhists?

The main reason:

They were protected by the Rajput rulers in Rajasthan and Gujarat....the Rajputs defeated and repelled the Islamic hordes. This is why most of the medeival Jain schools, muths, and temples are located mostly in these two states.

If the Bengalis had similarly defeated the Muslim invaders, then Buddhism would have also survived in mainland India.

To the dumbass (Armor) who said that Muslims really stand a chance against Hindus, please, take your head out of your @$$ and smell the fresh air. Muslims have been against Hindus for a longass time and Hindus still get by just fine. Please take your violent tendencies and angst elsewhere.

Once again, welcome to the world of fanaticism and extremism.


Nowadays, Jainism only has about 10 million followers, which is barely any larger than the Indian Buddhist population.

Read the Rise and Decline of Buddhism by Kanai Lal Hazra.
Buddhism lost tons of patronage in the period before the Muslims.
Though, in western India it was primarily the Muslims fault. Buddhists and Hindus thrived together

The Jains in India are more spread out
http://www.censusindiamaps.net/page/Religi...p1/housemap.htm
The Buddhists are far more concentrated


Also they only make up about 1% of Gujarat

That's okay, since the Rajputs also form only 4% of the population

Caste An European Phenomenon

That's quite an interesting article.

The second article on that thread is also interesting:

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/castesystem.htm

Yes I read them all. There all very informative. Alot of Hindus just blindly follow the "caste system" instead of varnashrama dharma. Varnashrama has nothing to do with skin color. There are only four true varnas. Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra. All of them are important for a society to function. All should be respected. The non-Hindu Indian caste system has thousand of caste ranking higher or lower than others. None of those have to do with true varnashrama dharma. Alot of these people who call themselves Brahmin have no right to, because they didn't earn the title. Brahmins are only people, who are guru, priest, swamis, nuns, monks, sadhus etc.... Anyone who isn't apart of a clergy shouldn't call themselves brahmins. Same with kshatriyas, if you're not a police officer, in the military, or serving your country(or community) in some way. Don't use that title. And so on for the other 2 varnas.

If people followed it that way, then everyone would have atleast two or all varnas in their own family. And I doubt any discrimination would take place.

BTW I luv how atleast four people in this thread went on & on about how they hate the caste system and how wrong it is etc.... But at the end always had to add that they're a brahmin. If you hate the caste system then stop following it. Because in all honestly, none of you are actual brahmins in varnashrama dharma. You're going by the british birthrite class system code. And that has nothing to do with Hinduism.


This is how you choose you varnashrama dharma. What is you job? What is your belief? What is your passion? How do you define yourself etc... You can choose your varna, but you have to follow the dharma that goes along with that.

As long as nobody discriminates, I don't care. People are just saying what their ancestors did.

And unfortunately, since last name usually tells you what your caste is---People are very quick to label people by what caste they are. If my mom met a stripper with the last name Sharma, "Brahmin" would come to her head before the fact that this Desi girl is a stripper because Sharma is a popular Brahmin surname. It's not something that's too easy to erase.

oh well, I don't care if it got driven out of india......i guess that is where buddhism is started.,but buddism is still pretty popular in most eat asia...............even though alot had been change ^_^. and new buddha been added from east asia country.....i'm buddhist but it scare me that i htough most of this religions teach that people shound't kill and live in peace but somehow people are fighting oever religions............. ^_^ buddism and huddism look similar but if you learn about it there are alot of things that are different....

Precisely, I don't particularly care about being called brahmin or calling myself it, but I only use it to describe my ancestory and background.




Yes they're different yet at the same time they share similarities, and the influence of one on the other throughout history is pretty huge.

What do you mean "new buddha been added from east asia country"?

Those who fight over religions are usually losing the point over their own religion. There are many paths to God, but they all share the same purpose.