“Muslim Persecution” Crucial in Adding Fire Into a Flame in Affecting Decline of Buddhism
“MUSLIM PERSECUTION” CRUCIAL IN ADDING FIRE INTO A FLAME IN AFFECTING DECLINE OF BUDDHISM
By Satyavrat Nirala
It is reasonable to say that Muslim inventions in India had a great impact in its history and influences it’s political, religious and economic condition of our country. Many critics even suggested these inventions along with British later had a great influence to the problems where we are. We can say that the blame game is never going to help us in any way as some scholars revealed the positive influence that it amplified. Now, if we give a depth of the attacks of Arabs, Turks and mughals are placed in one box putting a label of “Islamic invaders” or “Muslim Persecution” . V. Smith puts up “the Muslims were the greatest religious persecutors.” A critic states that Arabs “full of zeal for the spread of the new religion, laid heavy hand upon the religious building of the Hindus and Buddhist.” There are different miss- fortunate distorted picture of the Buddhist and Muslim pious histories. If we carefully observe at the conversions of the Muslims both from Hindus and Buddhism it is seen that it was slow and prolonged process.
In present time, the viewpoint of Koenraad elst, who believes that “it is not ‘Brahmanical onslaught’ but Islam that chased Buddhism out of India, and their doctrine of non- violence also acted a role as they hadn’t offered any resistance. The critic such as V.A. Smith and B.R. Ambedkar both agreed to the “Sword of Islam” or “Muslim Persecution” as important agent in the history of India. This voice is prominent in H.D. Sankalia’s book where he advocated “a death blow was given by the mighty- blood- smeared hand of Islam.” The series of attack that uprooted not only Buddhist monasteries by the Turks and Arabs but certain places were literally wiped out of existence. Dharmasvamin’s account of the Doom of Nalanda in the hand of Muslim invaders, but still he points out that teaching and learning were going on at least over the
By Satyavrat Nirala
It is reasonable to say that Muslim inventions in India had a great impact in its history and influences it’s political, religious and economic condition of our country. Many critics even suggested these inventions along with British later had a great influence to the problems where we are. We can say that the blame game is never going to help us in any way as some scholars revealed the positive influence that it amplified. Now, if we give a depth of the attacks of Arabs, Turks and mughals are placed in one box putting a label of “Islamic invaders” or “Muslim Persecution” . V. Smith puts up “the Muslims were the greatest religious persecutors.” A critic states that Arabs “full of zeal for the spread of the new religion, laid heavy hand upon the religious building of the Hindus and Buddhist.” There are different miss- fortunate distorted picture of the Buddhist and Muslim pious histories. If we carefully observe at the conversions of the Muslims both from Hindus and Buddhism it is seen that it was slow and prolonged process.
In present time, the viewpoint of Koenraad elst, who believes that “it is not ‘Brahmanical onslaught’ but Islam that chased Buddhism out of India, and their doctrine of non- violence also acted a role as they hadn’t offered any resistance. The critic such as V.A. Smith and B.R. Ambedkar both agreed to the “Sword of Islam” or “Muslim Persecution” as important agent in the history of India. This voice is prominent in H.D. Sankalia’s book where he advocated “a death blow was given by the mighty- blood- smeared hand of Islam.” The series of attack that uprooted not only Buddhist monasteries by the Turks and Arabs but certain places were literally wiped out of existence. Dharmasvamin’s account of the Doom of Nalanda in the hand of Muslim invaders, but still he points out that teaching and learning were going on at least over the