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Decline of Bauddham in Bharatam
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
http://sites.google.com/site/hindunew/bauddham
Decline of Bauddham in Bharatam: role of islamist jihadists
Bauddham is sanatana dharma continuum.
Thanks to B. Shantanu for the URL of Parshu Narayan's article. This
is an extraordinary account which should be taught in every school
all over the world to remind every child about the destruction of one
of the world's oldest universities in Nalanda by Islamist Jihadists
such as Muhammad Bin Bakhtiar Khilji. Yes, the story has yet to be
fully told.
Bauddham is a Hindu civilization continuum. The tragic story of the
decline of Bauddham in Bharatam is as yet, an untold story.
Arun Shourie cites BR Ambedkar: "There can be no doubt that the fall
of Buddhism in India was due to the invasions of the Musalmans,"
writes the author. "Islam came out as the enemy of the 'But'. The
word 'But,' as everybody knows, is an Arabic word and means an idol.
Not many people, however, know that the derivation of the word 'But'
is the Arabic corruption of Buddha. Thus the origin of the word
indicates that in the Moslem mind idol worship had come to be
identified with the Religion of the Buddha. To the Muslims, they were
one and the same thing. The mission to break the idols thus became
the mission to destroy Buddhism. Islam destroyed Buddhism not only in
India but wherever it went. Before Islam came into being Buddhism was
the religion of Bactria, Parthia, Afghanistan, Gandhar and Chinese
Turkestan, as it was of the whole of Asia...."
And adds his own comments on how Marxist historians had distorted the
history of Hindu civilization: "...the Marxist historians who have
been perpetrating this falsehood (of ascribing the extinction of
Buddhism to the persecution of Buddhists by Hindus) have not been
able to produce even an iota of evidence to substantiate the
concoction. In one typical instance, three inscriptions were cited.
The indefatigable Sita Ram Goel looked them up. Two of the
inscriptions had absolutely nothing to do with the matter. And the
third told a story which had the opposite import than the one which
the Marxist historian had insinuated: a Jain king had himself taken
the temple from Jain priests and given it to the Shaivites because
the former had failed to live up to their promise. Goel repeatedly
asked the historian to point to any additional evidence or to
elucidate how the latter had suppressed the import that the
inscription in its entirety conveyed. He waited in vain. The
revealing exchange is set out in Goel's monograph, "Stalinist
'Historians' Spread the Big Lie." Marxists cite only two other
instances of Hindus having destroyed Buddhist temples. These too it
turns out yield to completely contrary explanations. Again Marxists
have been asked repeatedly to explain the construction they have been
circulating -- to no avail. Equally important, Sita Ram Goel invited
them to cite any Hindu text which orders Hindus to break the places
of worship of other religions -- as the Bible does, as a pile of
Islamic manuals does. He has asked them to name a single person who
has been honoured by the Hindus because he broke such places -- the
way Islamic historians and lore have glorified every Muslim ruler and
invader who did so. A snooty silence has been the only response."
http://arunshourie.voiceofdharma.com/articles/scandal.htm
Was it not the son of Pushyamitra Sunga who restored the Ashok Stoop
at Sanchi which had been damaged ca. 2nd century BCE?
Read more at Shantanu's blog:
http://satyameva-jayate.org/2009/12/09/hindu-kings-monasteries/
S. Kalyanaraman
The last lesson at Nalanda
Parshu Narayanan Posted: Sep 18, 2003 at 0000 hrs IST
I had to attend a wedding at Patna and managed a side trip to
Nalanda. As I walked into the ruins, a huge dark sadness descended on
me. Nalanda, the greatest ever Buddhist university, with its hundreds
of monks and thousands of books, was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khalji's
Turki troops around 1200 AD. As I looked at walls still blackened by
the bonfires of books, I began my search for answers. The museum
nearby gives you a glimpse of Nalanda's sanctity and fame across the
Buddhist world: Tibet, China, Japan and most of Southeast Asia. While
inside, I saw a group of Tibetan monks walking through, placing
sacred white scarves on some statues.
Back home, I downloaded the pages of the past. Buddhism was not
swallowed up by Sanatana Dharma, as we now believe. It thrived, with
sincere patrons like Harsha. Even the infamous Jaichand built a
monastery to honour his Guru, Srimitra. No, what finished Buddhism
off was that it revolved around the Sangha. To alien invaders, a
monastery's imposing walls and towers made it an obvious military
target. After Odantapura, the monastery near Nalanda, was razed and
all the monks beheaded, the Turks found no treasure and certainly no
arms. All they found were books, and with none left to explain their
meaning, they were burnt and Odantapura turned into a military camp.
Let me quickly add that Bakhtiyar Khilji's Turkic forefathers, the
White Huns of Mihirakula -- behaved no differently towards the Sangha
although they were Shiva-bhakts. It was with the greatest difficulty
that the Guptas and others managed to save their lands from their
depredations in the sixth century.
As I browsed, a terribly poignant account of the last lesson at
Nalanda emerged. Incredibly, it was by Nalanda's last student: A
Tibetan monk called Dharmaswamin. He visited Nalanda in 1235, nearly
forty years after its sack, and found a small class still conducted
in the ruins by a ninety-year old monk, Rahul Sribhadra. Weak and
old, the teacher was kept fed and alive by a local Brahmin, Jayadeva.
Warned of a roving band of 300 Turks, the class dispersed, with
Dharmaswamin carrying his nonagenarian teacher on his back into
hiding. Only the two of them came back, and after the last lesson (it
was Sanskrit grammar) Rahul Sribhadra told his Tibetan student that
he had taught him all he knew and in spite of his entreaties asked
him to go home. Packing a raggedy bundle of surviving manuscripts
under his robe, Dharmaswamin left the old monk sitting calmly amidst
the ruins. And both he and the Dharm of Shakyamuni made their exit
from India.
http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=31704
End of forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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