Talk:Palpatine/@comment-27525272-20190419175114/@comment-29653428-20190507141458

In honesty, I like some of your answers and accept your view. But there are something I don't agree. Such as The radicalized Vietnamese Buddhists during the Vietnam War certainly had no qualms engaging in violence and even using it as part of their theology. The 969 Movement because they fear the Islam extremists grow and rise to power in their country and oppress Buddhists (which it's real in my own country now). It's maybe prejudge but it's truths also because Islamic fanatic make 9/11 first (and my mom's relative dead in that buildings..) Yes, BUT they're extremists with some well-intentioned, and they really didn't know the true teachings of Lord Buddha in Buddha era. That Buddhist Mahayana view. I'm Buddhist Theravada and yeah Buddha isn't God and didn't teach any violence like I said before. He never said he's prophet of any entities, he said all sentient beings trapped in Samsara, birth and death endlessly unless you're attain Dharma to Nirvana. Buddha is not "Creator" of the all universe and Samsara. He's just an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage human who discover the secrets of the whole existence and the "Law of Karma", an universal and natural order-law that trapped all beings even "Gods" in the Samsara. He's Satthadeva-Manussanam – Teacher of gods and humans. He taught that, "Bhikkhus, even if bandits were to sever you savagely limb by limb with a two-handled saw, he who gave rise to a mind of hate towards them would not be carrying out my teaching." — Kakacūpama Sutta, Majjhima-Nikāya 28 at MN i 128-29. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha. Ahimsa, a term meaning 'not to injure', is a primary virtue in Buddhism. Buddhism is generally seen as among the religious traditions least associated with violence. Buddhism is a least group relate to using of violence and persecution to encroach and kill others' lives. So this is a case why many religions (especially three Abrahamic religions) around the world are deeply, secretly hate, be jealous and be angry of Buddhism so much, and then make them manipulate events to incriminate, blame and discredit Buddhism fall from its true positive side and were out from the earth. As far as Buddha's teachings and scriptures are concerned, Buddhism always dislike and forbids cruelty, brutality or violence for resolving all conflicts. Gautama Buddha taught it to be the duty of a parent to have his child educated in science and literature. He also taught that no one should believe what is spoken by any sage, written in any book, or affirmed by tradition, unless it accords with reason. If I were a school student, I would be focussing on points 1. (no violence is allowed even in the name of one's religion), 2. (no creator god is needed to account for existence) and 3. (salvation is achievable by a man's own efforts in meditation). He is recognized by Buddhists as an enlightened one teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering from Samsara and tyrannical powers of its secretive real evil Creator.....("true" Phya Mara/God+Demiurge-like entity). If you can't speak for Abrahamic religions. Look at my reason and another side. Ngo Dinh Diem, a Catholic Vietnamese politician and the President of South Vietnam from 1955-1963. Did he care what happen about Buddhist monks and Buddhist people in Viename? No. They're treat as second-class people without any right due to his rules. His pro-Catholic policies antagonized many Buddhists. He was a member of the Catholic minority. Many officers in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) converted to Catholicism in the belief that their career prospects depended on it, and many were refused promotion if they did not do so. Additionally, the distribution of firearms to village self-defense militias intended to repel Viet Cong guerrillas was done so that weapons were only given to Catholics. Some Catholic priests ran private armies, and in some areas forced conversions, looting, shelling and demolition of pagodas occurred. Some Buddhist villages converted en masse to receive aid or avoid being forcibly resettled by Diem's regime. Thích Quảng Đức's must self-immolation himself to call the justice for this matter, but he still don't care of it. Ironically, as like the consequences of his own bad deeds he cause againt Buddhists had bite him in his ass. Ngô Đình Diệm were being shot and killed in a coup and assassination in 1963, fair enough for what he done to people under his control, he now die like a dead dog far from what a great leader he was before. This is old karma and new karma he cause, now had affect on him and in his life after death. Even god he believe, yet cannot help him from there. South Thailand insurgency, Thai Buddhist people were living in fear and terror of some extremists for decades without any Thai government officials help them directly by send many forces to clear conflict and they don't care any crap of people's lives, but they can send millions of army to take control the big Wat temple just for try to catch only one innocent monk who without any malevolent intend to Thailand, in the reign of current PM (who secretly favour Islam over Buddhism). Decline of Buddhism in India (Destruction of Nalanda University). The decline of Buddhism in India has been attributed to various factors as well like these subtle manipulations. According to Hazra, Buddhism declined in part because of the rise of the Brahmins and their influence in socio-political process. According to Randall Collins, Richard Gombrich and other scholars, Buddhism's rise or decline is not linked to Brahmins or the caste system, since Buddhism was "not a reaction to the caste system", but aimed at the salvation of those who joined its monastic order. The 11th century Persian traveller Al-Biruni writes that there was 'cordial hatred' between the Brahmins and Sramana Buddhists. Buddhism was also weakened by rival Hindu philosophies such as Advaita Vedanta, growth in temples and an innovation of the bhakti movement. Advaita Vedanta proponent Adi Shankara is believed to have "defeated Buddhism" and established Hindu supremacy. This rivalry undercut Buddhist patronage and popular support. The period between 400 CE and 1000 CE thus saw gains by the Vedanta school of Hinduism over Buddhism and Buddhism had vanished from Afghanistan and north India by early 11th century. India was now Brahmanic, not Buddhistic; Al-Biruni could never find a Buddhistic book or a Buddhist person in India from whom he could learn. The Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent was the first great iconoclastic invasion into South Asia. By the end of twelfth century, Buddhism had mostly disappeared, with the destruction of monasteries and stupas in medieval northwest and western India by those warmongering Islamic tyrants (now Pakistan and north India). In the north-western parts of medieval India, the Himalayan regions, as well regions bordering central Asia, Buddhism once facilitated trade relations, states Lars Fogelin. With the Turkish Islamic invasion and expansion, and central Asians adopting Islam, the trade route-derived financial support sources and the economic foundations of Buddhist monasteries declined, on which the survival and growth of Buddhism was based. The arrival of Islam removed the royal patronage to the monastic tradition of Buddhism, and the replacement of Buddhists in long-distance trade by the Muslims eroded the related sources of patronage. The Islamic invasion plundered wealth and destroyed Buddhist images, and consequent take over of land holdings of Buddhist monasteries removed one source of necessary support for the Buddhists, while the economic upheaval and new taxes on laity sapped the laity support of Buddhist monks. They destroy Nalanda university, decline under Islamic rule, kill every monks they found. Monasteries and institutions such as Nalanda were abandoned by Buddhist monks around 1200 CE, who must flee to escape the invading Muslim army, after which the site decayed over the Islamic rule in India that followed, Muslims had completely rise to power that time. Ironic, their royalty in India later weakened, destroyed and died by the ancient English colonization in that time. Fair enough for their bad deeds that their ancestors does atrocities to innocent Buddhist monks for their sadistic God, kill people without reason. This is called Karma, the Law of Karma, actions and cause and effect, it's always fair and just beyond all laws. I'm so satisfy that their empires were destroyed. You still think it is not related now, hmph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Buddhism_in_the_Indian_subcontinent#Islamic_invasions_and_conquest_(10th_to_12th_century)