Buddhism's Decline in India

Why did Buddhism decline and eventually disappear in India, the land where it all began? We will look at the reasons and how they are different from the usual stories we are told. In particular we will look at factors internal to Buddhism in India at the time, as well as to competition with Hinduism and Islam. Lastly we will turn to some lessons we can take from all this, and to the eventual resurgence of Buddhism in India at the end.

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✅ Source materials:
Richard Eaton, “Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States” in the Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Sept. 2000).

Johan Elverskog, Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (U.Penn, 2010). https://amzn.to/3fy0GYx

Lars Fogelin, An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism (Oxford, 2015) (This book is recommendable for material after the turn into the Common Era). https://amzn.to/2UT6RyJ

Peter Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhism 2nd Ed. pp. 194-196. https://amzn.to/37DH42m

PVB Karunatilaka, “Book Review: The Decline of Buddhism in India: A Fresh Perspective by KTS Sarao”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, New Series, 58, no. 1 (2013): 91-98. Accessed June 18, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/43854937

James Mallinson, “Kālavañcana in the Konkan: How a Vajrayāna Haṭhayoga Tradition Cheated Buddhism’s Death in India”, in Religions 2019, 10, 273.

KTS Sarao, The Decline of Buddhism in India: A Fresh Perspective (Munshiram Manoharlal, 2012). https://amzn.to/2AFkqeh

Audrey Truschke, “The Power of the Islamic Sword in Narrating the Death of Indian Buddhism”, in History of Religions 57, no. 4 (May 2018). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...

AK Warder, Indian Buddhism, 3rd Ed. https://amzn.to/30YrUDw

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