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thesmtsolver2 69 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Second Life of Sanskrit

Buddhism wasn’t exterminated due to violence like Zoroastrianism from Iran.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/18rdfjx/hist...

senderista 69 days ago [–]

Really just a tribute to the syncretic capacity of Hinduism.

thesmtsolver2 69 days ago | [–]

Not a lot got absorbed into Hinduism though. Look at the link for factors that contributed.

Jainism and Sikhism have survived and didn’t get absorbed into Hinduism.

selimthegrim 69 days ago | | [–]

You do know iamshs is Sikh, correct?

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