The disappearance of Buddhism as a viable option. While on one flank, resurgent Hinduism had almost completed defeating it ideologically, on the other, the invading Turks and Afghans physically destroyed Buddhist concentrations and monastic or pedagogic concentrations.
bonobashi --- On Mon, 1/9/08, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [silk] curious about whether this is a reasonable article... To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 1 September, 2008, 9:33 PM On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Bonobashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, two points: there were alternatives to this frozen state of social status > till about 800 years ago, alternatives which actively competed with orthodox > Hinduism; when these alternatives were stamped out, more or less, > another very effective, far more hostile alternative turned up and was taken > up in huge numbers. What changed 800 years ago? Thaths -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/
