Timeline for What did Buddhism vs. Hinduism mean politically?
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| Nov 10 at 3:46 | comment | added | Haridasa | @DoctorZhivago you're correct, but Buddhist text mention Vedic deities like Brahma, and Indra's weapon is part of the name for "Vajra"-yana Buddhism. Also Vishnu and Shiva while less prominent than Brahma even still feature see sacred-texts.com/bud/j4/j4018.htm I would suggest the op look at the Gupta period. | |
| Mar 26, 2021 at 18:46 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2021 at 17:29 | answer | added | Vivek Iyer | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 15:20 | answer | added | sofa general | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 30, 2017 at 3:33 | answer | added | John Dee | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 1:32 | comment | added | John Dee | I looked at your book project. I think you really should read Alain Danielou: amazon.com/While-Gods-Play-Oracles-Predictions/dp/0892811153/… It talks about how ancient Semitic and Dravidian civilizations went undercover in the face of Indo-Aryan opression, creating the various mystery cults of the east and west. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 0:29 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 15:06 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 8:19 | comment | added | ganit44 | Khattiya is referred as Kshatriya in Hinduism. Gautama Buddha was born in a Kshatriya family. | |
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| Jul 31, 2016 at 5:04 | history | edited | TheEvolutionOfHuman.com | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Reworded to clarify that the question is not about religion per se but its broader historical context
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| Jul 30, 2016 at 3:10 | comment | added | TheEvolutionOfHuman.com | @CGCampbell : I see your point. A little further research has shown me that Buddha might have been making a break from the caste system. I'm assuming he was from the khattiya caste, whereas Hindus place Brahmins on top. So I would imagine there was some true political substance behind his reforms, which could have easily gotten whitewashed with scriptural language. If the consensus is that this is the inappropriate place, I'll try to remove the question. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 23:57 | comment | added | CGCampbell | I kind of disagree with this question being a "good question"... how does one discuss the history of (a) religion/religious belief without discussing the ... religion ... | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 22:12 | comment | added | Doctor Zhivago | Again I don't think Buddha demanded you bow down to any God per se but put forth ways to "heal thyself." Historically speaking unlike Hinduism Buddhism spread quite dramatically in the Far East and as with all non native "religions" was brutally supressed in China. I believe the island of Bali is still strongly Hindu...but Buddhism "disappeared" for Centuries in many places until the Dutch arrived at the beginning of the 20th Century. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 21:36 | comment | added | Drux | @called2voyage Hence mine was a comment and not an answer ... | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 21:21 | comment | added | called2voyage | @Drux No disrespect to the Swami intended, and I haven't read the book myself so I can't speak to its quality, but Prabhavananda was not an academic historian, and the OP is specifically looking for a historical treatment rather than a religious one. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 21:09 | comment | added | Drux | If memory serves, Swami Prabhavananda's excellent The Spiritual Heritage of India has a chapter on Buddhism that addresses the matter. | |
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| Jul 29, 2016 at 20:18 | comment | added | called2voyage | @user14394 Both Hinduism and Buddhism address the topic of the devas (often translated in Western literature as "gods"), and there are many schools of thought concerning them. "God" in general could mean a superhuman entity, an entity worthy of worship, the Supreme Entity, or all/any of the above. Depending on which definition you are using, a Buddhist or a Hindu may agree or disagree as to whether a deva or any other entity described in either tradition could be described as "god". | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 20:03 | comment | added | Doctor Zhivago | I don't recall Buddhism as having various Gods but of a "way" and...this is pure conjecture on my part..."one way." | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 19:47 | comment | added | called2voyage | Good question. I agree it would be good to see a historical treatment of this topic. | |
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