Mukhrani
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As someone else pointed out, Siddhartha was from present-day Nepal. Modern Nepal has been heavily jeetified, back then it would have been more like a mix of Tibet and old Vedic northern India ethnically. Buddhism was gradually all but extirpated from India over the millennia, traveling north and east to form Buddhist civilizations in Central Asia and hybridizing with other civilizations in East & Southeast Asia. Buddhism is often slimily claimed by Jeets to be a brother 'dharmic' religion but Buddhism represented a complete rejection of the Hindu outlook. This is what the Buddha declared upon attaining enlightenment:I'm generally sympathetic to the argument that hostile environments naturally breed long term planning and a moral code in humans, but Buddhism originated in India and has a very strong ethical code at its roots. Maybe Hindus and Jains and Sikhs do as well, I really don't know.
Seeking but not finding the builder of this house
I hurried through many lives
Painful is the cycle of birth and rebirth
O house builder, I have found you!
You shall not build the house again.
Your rafters are all broken
And your ridgepole is shattered
My mind has reached nirvana
And has made an end of craving
The very cycle of reincarnation and superstructure of cosmology in which Hinduism operates, the idea of rebirth based on previous merits and castes, Buddhism explicitly seeks to destroy. That's the whole point of the religion: this shit sucks so bad that we need to escape it completely. The Hindu terms for enlightenment all reference fire, the root of the word 'Nirvana' is 'to have blown out' as in 'I blew that candle out' i.e. extinguish the same fire that Hinduism makes an object of worship. It makes a kind of poetic sense that Buddhism fucked out of India ASAP and that the remnants linger on only at the fringes of Indian society, which is still wallowing in the hideous morass of Hinduism millennia later.
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