Please pardon my from-exile interjection, but I have a difficult time understanding the viewpoint that "Buddhism will never be allowed to raise its head in India ever again".
I am a proud Bharatiya. I come from a line of low-caste Hindus that have been Hindus for countless generations. I was born a Hindu Bharatiya. And without ever straying from Dharma, I shall proudly remain Hindu---which is just truly something that many cannot ever proudly claim. Along with being a proud Bharatiya, I have an enamored respect and adoration for Bharatiya philosophies and thought. And by default, that would include numerous Astika and Nastika philosophies. In other words, this would include Jainism, [Indian/Bharatiya strains of] Buddhism, and the Lokayata (Carvaka).
It does me wonderful service to reminisce or speculate about my Bharatiya forefathers engaging in sophisticated philosophical linguistics debates in grand halls and "sold-out" venues (instead of forcefully converting one another or waging religious wars in order to highlight the intolerance of their philosophies, acts which characterize the history of religions like Christianity and Islam), articulating Buddhist and Hindu lines of thought that are so spiritually developed that they shame, in my opinion, a myriad thought processes found elsewhere outside of Bharat. And I long for the days when Buddhism rises once again and takes it due place in its motherland, just so those sophisticated exchanges can once again commence among my Dharmic Bharatiya comrades.
Therefore, I find the mere thought of "never allowing Buddhism to raise its head in India ever again" to be not only extremely rigorist and backwards, but an insult to Dharmic Bharatiya ideologies. With such backward logic, one can then rationally conclude that Buddhism is not welcomed on Maa Bharati's soil but the slaughtering and consuming of cow-flesh is? What absurdity is that? As a proud Bharatiya, I become elated when I read about valiant Buddhist personalities such as Dharmakirti (a personal favorite of mine) and Nagarjuna---especially because they, too, were proud Bharatiya-s of Bharatiya lineage. I hold them as my forefathers, even if they are not of the same kula nor ethnolinguistic origin, due to them just being Bharatiya.
In conclusion, and keeping in mind that the variances of that which is Dharma belong in Bharat, I'd welcome a Buddhist revival in Bharat any day. Because with that, I'd notice a rise in Sanskrit studies, Dharmic polemics, and a new and more vigorous growth of Dharmic mysticism-s. Plus, like their kin of old, they too would be disgusted with the allowance of cow-slaughter on Maa Bharati's land.
ps - Whoever is necromancing old threads because they are confusing "similar threads" with recent threads, please, for the love of the gods, stop.
