Removing The Sheen From Buddhism

[Husky]

A while back, I think I googled for: world map



Among the 4 main image icons that then appeared (and may still) was the following, where special attention is to be drawn to the boundaries of India (what India?). Cute little wishful thinking alternative history, though maybe the sadly heathen-ish Ranjit Singh wouldn't have sufficiently obliged the monogawdist Khalistanis (what's a Khalistan?).





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So Khalistanis would claim not only AfPak, but most of India as Khalistan.



But Indian "Hindu nationalists" still can't help wooing everyone to come and share the Hindu label.



Then again, as per Hindutva, to Khalistanis, much of Akhanda Bharatam is both Punya Bhumi AND Pitru Bhumi. So they're all very Hindu (nationalist) with very Hindu (nationalist) objectives, no?



^ Accidentally great example for a glaring failure in the Hindutva definition. ^



Every missionary religion in India has some kind of conversion or conquest project going against the Hindu heathen nation. And Hindus are expected to just bear with it, and to keep sharing out their sole English-language identifier (Hindu) with all of the competition too.



Well, I suppose I southern Hindus should be grateful that "Dravida" and some part of Maharashtra are left alone. And so too Assam and W Bengal.

Sounds like it's slightly better than Mughalstan.



But wonder what islamaniacs will say?



althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Raj_Karega_Khalsa

OTL History and demise of the Sikh KingdomEdit



In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Sikh Empire was the powerhouse of South Asia, that arose under the leadership of Maharajah Ranjit Singh who established the empire basing it around the Punjab. His administration included people of all religions, the empire was a secular state. At least 80% of population of the territory he ruled over was Muslim, 10% were Hindu and the majority remaining percent were Sikhs. Unlike, other South Asian empires, who appointed Brahmins as their minsters, the Sikh Ranjit Singh appointed Muslim Fakir Azizuddin as Wazir/Pradhan/Prime Minster.

althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Sikh_Kingdom_of_Khalistan_%28Raj_Karega_Khalsa%29

Sikh Kingdom of Khalistan (Raj Karega Khalsa)





Khalistan, (Punjabi: ਖਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ), officially the Sikh Kingdom of Khalistan (Punjabi: ਖਾਲਿਸਤਾਨ ਦੀ ਸਿੱਖ ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹੀ) is a sovereign country in South Asia. It borders Maharashtra and Dravida to the south-west and south, Tibet and Nepal to the north-east, Bengal to the east, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to the north, Turkmenistan to the north-west, and Iran and Persia to the west



The territory that now constitutes Khalistan was previously home to several ncient cultures, including the Mehrgarh of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including Hindus, Indo-Greeks, Muslims, Turco-Mongols, Afghans, before coming under rule of the Sikhs.

The bit on the left hand at the link is also worth perusing.

And then as usual, the renegades claim Harappa (the way christians claim GrecoRoman civilisation) and further dare to refer to - if you please - MBh and Vedic dynasties etc.

HistoryEdit

Pre-Sikh PeriodEdit



In prehistoric times, one of the earliest known cultures of South Asia, the Harappa civili(z/s)ation, was located in Punjab.



The epic battles described in the Mahabharata were fought in modern-day Haryana of Punjab. The Gandharas, Kambojas, Trigartas, Andhra, Pauravas, Bahlikas (Bactrian settlers of Punjab), Yaudheyas and others sided with the Kauravas in the great battle fought at Kurukshetra. According to Dr Fauja Singh and Dr L. M. Joshi: "There is no doubt that the Kambojas, Daradas, Kaikayas, Andhra, Pauravas, Yaudheyas, Malavas, Saindhavas and Kurus had jointly contributed to the heroic tradition and composite culture of ancient Punjab".

But Vedic dynasties have NOTHING to do with those of their distant descendants who converted out to other religions, be these Indic or christoislamic religions.



But no wonder christianised fishermen off the coast of Kerala and Tamizh Nadu feel that despite their conversion too they yet have a right to dare to make claims on the Mahabharatam.



This is the problem of allowing replacement theologies to claim religio-ethnic geneologies after denouncing the religio part. They aggrandise themselves with Hindu religio, even as they replace it with their own. And Hindus - with their universalism - will let them.



And this bit:

ReligionEdit



In Punjab there is a freedom of religion while making Sikhism the state religion. The first religions of Punjab were Buddhism and Hinduism, (apparently Buddhism is equal to Hinduism=Vedic religion including in ancientry in the Punjab, must be another joke) in the 8th century Islam arrived and replaced Hinduism as the majority religion. Sikhism was founded in the 14th century by Guru Nanank Dev Ji. In the beginnings of the Sikh Kingdom, Islam was the majority religion, but over time Sikhism become the majority.

Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple)



Darbar/Harmandir Sahib, known as the Golden Temple by non-Punjabi influenced countries



The current religious demographics are, Sikhism 98%, Islam 0.7%, Hinduism 0.5%, Christianity 0.3%, Buddhism 0.3%, the 0.2% either don't follow a religion or follow another religion.

But interesting wishful demographic projections for their -hopefully only alternative- history. (Sounds like Buddhist history rewriting of greater India having been once 'mostly Buddhist')

And how magnanimous the upstarts are to the native HindOOs: allowed to be 0.5% in Punjab (from the sad 37% at present).



So how would they like it if HindOOs were to likewise plan to reciprocate that percentage (in inverse, in our favour) while the HindOOs are still a force in Punjab? Only fair after all?



More proof that it's *only* ever Hindus that waste time concerning themselves with the welfare of the other Indic religions and trying to make everyone tag along in Hindu successes. Meanwhile, everyone else is plotting or dreaming of replacement.



Should nip this in the bud.



Why in the world and how was Sikhism allowed to become a majority in the historical and sacred Hindoo region of the Punjab. Were Hindoos sleeping? Yet again? No wonder people feel free to plot to turn Hindus from an already paltry 37% to 0.5% in the Punjab of their dreams, along with an increase from now 60% Sikhism to 98%.



From now on, should just assume that every new movement within Hinduism is going to become a competing spin-off (replacement ideology). Has once-heathen India ever bred any other kind of religions?





This page is memorable too:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab,_India



In the history section, one subsection is on ancient history, and all the many other subsections (each at least equally long) are all post-Sikhism in the state. As if there was no huge mass of time when the entire state was Hindoo. Sikhism is after all a very, very, very recent religion. Even later than islam.



The wacky page's Sikh Empire subsection has an image showing the actual extent of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's empire: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh_Empire#/media/File:Sikh_Empire.JPG

Shows nowhere near the landgrab for sikhism/khalistanis that was seen in the althistory world map of wannabe-Khalistan.