Buddha Civilization in Swat Valley Pakistan

[RayKalm]

Buddha Civilization in Swat Valley Pakistan Sherin Zada Express - YouTube

Pakistan used to be the great Buddhist kingdom of Ghandara. Pakistani-Ghandara monks and scholars were the ones who taught Buddhism to the Chinese and Japanese.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMkJPuyG8M

 

[yyetttt]

Yes, but it was mostly located in Afghanistan.

 

[Omar1984]

Yes, but it was mostly located in Afghanistan.

Wrong. It was mostly located in present day Pakistan. Taxila was the center of Buddhist learning and it is near Rawalpindi/Islamabad far away from Afghanistan. The eastern parts of Afghanistan bordering Pakistan also had Buddhist heritage. The western parts of Afghanistan believed in Zoroastrianism before Islam was revealed to them like Iranian people's ancestors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/a...ra-at-asia-society-review.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Bhairava]

Pakistan used to be the great Buddhist kingdom of Ghandara. Pakistani-Ghandara monks and scholars were the ones who taught Buddhism to the Chinese and Japanese.

Wrong.

It was Bodhisatva (from confines of modern day India) who took the message of Lord Buddha to Chin and Japan.

 

[Rusty]

Either way, it is so amazing to see our original religion before they were forced to convert to Hinduism.
We need to preserve all this and show to the world what our ancestors were, so they don't start believing Hindu propaganda that we were Hindus by choice.

 

[Karachiite]

Nice, Buddhism is one of the few sane and peaceful religion left in the world.

 

[Rusty]

Jealous Indians are Jealous.
It is on Pakistani soil and thus it is our history.
Hindus tried to erase it from us by forcing us to convert to Hinduism.
But thankfully we got enlightened by Islam and now appreciate our true history.

 

[kingkobra]

Dare I say the only one.

Jainism is supposed to be more peaceful..

 

[PARAS]

Jealous Indians are Jealous.
It is on Pakistani soil and thus it is our history.
Hindus tried to erase it from us by forcing us to convert to Hinduism.
But thankfully we got enlightened by Islam and now appreciate our true history.

What jealousy?Where is the evidence that you were forced to convert to hinduism?But it could be the case with islam. And buddhism came thousands of years after hinduism and a hindu prince siddharth gautam ,also known as buddha, started this religion.And Buddha is always depicted as doing yoga which is associated to hinduism.You are one of many pakistanis who feel ashamed that they were once hindus and come up with such comments to be able to sleep better at night.

 

[livingdead]

Jainism is supposed to be more peaceful..

And less rational.

 

[nalandapride]

Jealous Indians are Jealous.
It is on Pakistani soil and thus it is our history.
Hindus tried to erase it from us by forcing us to convert to Hinduism.
But thankfully we got enlightened by Islam and now appreciate our true history.

Classic denial to soothe your inner-self.

 

[kingkobra]

Jealous Indians are Jealous.
It is on Pakistani soil and thus it is our history.
Hindus tried to erase it from us by forcing us to convert to Hinduism.
But thankfully we got enlightened by Islam and now appreciate our true history.

haha...no one ever forced anyone to convert in ancient india...we were not barbaric...all dharmic religions are built on same principle and that is love for humanity irrespective of his/her religion....

how can have hindus tried to erase it when everything still exists?

creators of your nation were born in india so does that make them indians? just like that whatever there is in today's pakistan is our shared history...

 

[Rusty]

What jealousy?Where is the evidence that you were forced to convert to hinduism?But it could be the case with islam. And buddhism came thousands of years after hinduism and a hindu prince siddharth gautam ,also known as buddha, started this religion.And Buddha is always depicted as doing yoga which is associated to hinduism.You are one of many pakistanis who feel ashamed that they were once hindus and come up with such comments to be able to sleep better at night.

The evidence is easy, look at the Hindu invaders from India to Pakistan. Before them we were Buddhists and then once Hindu invaders came, over night we were Hindus with no Buddhists left. The only way to have 100% conversion rate in a short period of time is forced conversion. Muslims ruled India for 800 years and they only managed to convert 15% of the population, thus proving no forced conversion, but in case of Pakistan, we had no more Buddhists in less then 100 years of Hindu invasion.

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haha...no one ever forced anyone to convert in ancient india...we were not barbaric...all dharmic religions are built on same principle and that is love for humanity irrespective of his/her religion....

how can have hindus tried to erase it when everything still exists?

creators of your nation were born in india so does that make them indians? just like that whatever there is in today's pakistan is our shared history...

it must be nice and comforting to live in this fantasy world, but the evidence speak for itself.

 

[kingkobra]

The evidence is easy, look at the Hindu invaders from India to Pakistan. Before them we were Buddhists and then once Hindu invaders came, over night we were Hindus with no Buddhists left. The only was to have 100% conversion rate in a short period of time is forced conversion. Muslims ruled India for 800 years and they only managed to convert 15% of the population, thus proving no forced conversion, but in case of Pakistan, we had no more Buddhists in less then 100 years of Hindu invasion.

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it must be nice and comforting to live in this fantasy world, but the evidence speak for itself.

if you are saying whole territory of current pakistan was budhists then you are delusional...i will suggest you should study life of pushyamitra sunga as to why budhists disappeared from current pakistan...

PS:those who are saying hinduism is older religion should understand that Hinduism is mixture of vedic dharma,budhism,jainism..all these religions influenced each other over centuries of period to form hinduism...majorly because all these religions started as a school of thought in vedic dharma..

 

[Rusty]

So you are enlightened by Islam(which doesn't recognize any other religion) and boasting of Buddhism as your "original religion"

So according to your own logic, your are forcefully converted to Islam.....from Buddhism....

This is exactly how Islam enlightened us, by freeing our intellect to work logically.
1. what do you mean recognize any other religion? Islam accepts that Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, etc exists. so we do recognize them. So are you trying to say that only Hinduism accepts other religions existence?
2.If you bothered to actually read what I said I already showed you my logic, but since you might be a special needs student I will say it again.
" The only way to have 100% conversion rate in a short period of time is forced conversion. Muslims ruled India for 800 years and they only managed to convert 15% of the population, thus proving no forced conversion"

how on earth you concluded that we were forcibly converted, from that sentence, is only known by people who have PHD in Hindu logic.

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if you are saying whole territory of current pakistan was budhists then you are delusional...i will suggest you should study life of pushyamitra sunga as to why budhists disappeared from current pakistan...

PS:those who are saying hinduism is older religion should understand that Hinduism is mixture of vedic dharma,budhism,jainism..all these religions influenced each other over centuries of period to form hinduism...majorly because all these religions started as a school of thought in vedic dharma..

and if you are saying you are putting up a straw man because you can't really dispute my facts and logic then I would agree with you