The Greatest Enemy of Buddhism-Shashanka?

In this video, we talk about the alleged persecution of Shashanka's persecution of Buddhism. We analyze the different sources that talk about Shashanka's persecution of Buddhism.
Reference:-
1. Buddhist Records of the Western World by Si-Yu-Ki (2 Vols. in One): Tr. from Chinese of Hiuten Tsiang by Samuel Beal
2. History of Bengal Vol 1
3. Harsha: A Political Study by D. Devahuti
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[@mainakbhattacharya8114]

The only bad luck of Shashank was he didn’t have Banbhatta & Hiuen Tsang in his court.

[@bongohindu5496]

Fun Fact: Banbhatta also hailed from Bengal, most probably from Eastern Bengal.

[@aryanjaiswal8935]

Welp Sasanka's empire was not even near to Harsha's

[@mainakbhattacharya8114]

@@aryanjaiswal8935 we surely don’t know that. As there is not many direct concrete source of information about Sashanka, we can only imagine about his empire.

[@arpan9937]

@@bongohindu5496 eastern bengal at that time was only forest and marshes. It was cleared by the mughals.

[@anirudh177]

@@mainakbhattacharya8114 By Harsha's time he probably vas limited to Odisha-Bengal.

[@rpat17]

Shasank asked to destroy one statue of buddha and cut one secred tree then he was cursed to death. And so many scholars are doing arguments on this. But Bakhitiar khizali destroyed whole Nalanda"s three universities, killed thousands of people. But nothing happened to him. Nor Harsa has made any video on this. Are you afraid of redicals?

[@AbhayPeshin]

History hai, whataboutism mat karo, Gupta period ki series hai. Vaad podcast mein he talks about that too.

[@parthamukherjee277]

This foot story looks like a fairy tale. not a eyewitness account.

[@mrperfect-mh4qm]

Chattari ARYA sacchani, ARYA attanga magga, buddha arya namo arya namo buddha

[@dwarasamudra8889]

Can you make a video explaining the difference between Indian and European Feudalism and the advantages and disadvantages of both? Thanks

[@HaharuRecords]

it was also said: the queen of Emperor Ashoka, Tissarakkha was responsible for chopping off the original Bodhi tree.

[@mahawthadahow2941]

after that Ashoka took an oath and poured. coconut milk on the bodhi tree that was cutted and the bodhi tree had risen again.😊

[@asthasingh2899]

​@@mahawthadahow2941seems like bulshit. Once cut how can it grow back. It's a part of coverup.

[@mahawthadahow2941]

@@asthasingh2899 l don't know but in the Buddhist texts had said that 🧐

[@NoobGamerPlaysValorant]

liberal Historians don't take puranas as historical evidence but will take buddhist sources.@@mahawthadahow2941

[@mrperfect-mh4qm]

Chattari ARYA sacchani, ARYA attanga magga, buddha arya namo arya namo buddha

[@infinite5795]

Can you do a video on Tribhubana Mahadevi, the illustrious 7-8th century AD Odia queen?

[@iabhiroop]

Your intro was way too good ("bigot who couldn't tolerate") 😂. I was drinking water and it almost came out through my nose. Jokes aside, congrats Jay. Quality content as always.

[@times2508]

Literally me .

[@saurabhdang7307]

Thanks for your efforts

[@krishnajar]

Good insights. Generally I wouldn’t have believed it but since I have been following you I know you are a unbiased historian but also not a Marxist . Thanks for being objective!

[@hunkwasbisyan007]

At least in the Indian subcontinent, Islam was the greatest enemy of Boudh dharma, than the Moharaja Sasanka could ever dream of....

[@xandercage5871]

I am a Buddhist.I don't personally feel so angry at the king and hope he had a good rebirth and attain moksha in future lifetimes.Ultimately all sentient beings are relatives,so I hope harmony and a quest for pure knowledge spreads in every corner of this beatiful country.❤

[@jishnum851]

Also cover the how bhuddist use to persecute taoist , Confucius and other local religion These monks also use to subvert other religion and bhuddism in india was a aristocrat religion

[@BhaktManomandirVihariniUma]

Confuciusism was practical

[@randomturd1415]

I don't think the Buddhists could persecute the followers of Confucius, Confucius had more political power than Buddhism ever had in China, Buddhism was treated by the Chinese court as a fancy religion, not something that was to be made central to the Chinese identity

[@kashutosh9132]

is taoism and Confucius also present in India?

[@kenkaneki4925]

​@@kashutosh9132but the Buddhist did persecute ajvikas and Jains

[@kenkaneki4925]

​@@kashutosh9132Ashokavadana also mentions that, after his conversion to Buddhism, Bindusara's son Ashoka issued an order to kill all the Ajivikas in Pundravardhana, enraged at a picture that depicted Gautama Buddha in a negative light. Around 18,000 followers of the Ajivika sect were supposedly executed as a result of this order.

[@vempatirahulreddy2158]

jay, i personally believe its better to use BCE & CE, instead of BC & AD. if you find possible please try

[@WHITE_RAPTOR]

Give credit to to those who invented it, bro..

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Why? it doesn't improve the accuracy of the system and is more cubersome and less distinct between each era.

[@abhiramn474]

Could you please do Garha Mandla?

[@sunilrawat2052]

Can you make video on Rana Sanga military history??

[@raginisingh2251]

Excellent

[@harishhanchinal2838]

Nice video...

[@Rey02508]

can you cover pushyamitra shunga ? he was accused of similar stuff

[@dontTalkBullshit]

It was just leftist propaganda to damage the character of pushpamitra shunga Just because he was a Brahmin

[@-rate6326]

He already covered it. He killed the Buddhist leaders who supported indo-greeks while they are invading North India.

[@AtheistNationalist]

Debunked. No proof found.

[@dang_972]

Chuddhism must be destroyed

[@Serenity1.0_]

​@@dang_972you are disrespecting your own religion

[@Error_bhoi]

Based Shashanka ❤🔥🗿

[@akk7791]

Nice

[@koustavsen5672]

It was political buddhism that was spreading all over India... In that scenario both pushyamitra and Shashanko were on the other side of history.... A history written by the buddhist politicians including huen Tsang!!

[@swapnilsingh3379]

What evidence is there about Buddhism flourishing during the regime of Shashank? I mean it could also be argued that even if it was thriving in the capital city, Shashank probably didn't want to inflame the Buddhists more than he already had(if we're to go by Huen Tsang's account) in order to prevent an uprising. My point is if this rare instance of religious oppression is mentioned in two separate accounts it must have some truth behind it. Also let's not forget that Huen Tsang was from a different country and a simple travelling scholar, so what possible impetus could he have about slandering a foreign govt.

[@SagnikSanyal88]

Banabhatta was particularly vicious towards Shashanka in Harashcharita, calling him Gauda Bhujang ...or the snake form Bengal :(

[@darkdevil9752]

Hail to the king who chopped off poisnous tree 😂😂😂😂

[@MrShukra2000]

Your mind is poisonous

[@dang_972]

Jay Shashanka

[@AbhayPeshin]

Wtf is wrong with you guys, ISLAM pasand aa gaya kya? Mussalmano jaisi baat karoge toh Islamophobia bhi sehna padega. Sanatan ka sabse prabhavshali philosopher hai Gautam sidharth

[@dang_972]

@@AbhayPeshin Hahaha. Loda mera. Buddhism kmkb. Only Hindu supremacy

[@mrperfect-mh4qm]

Chattari ARYA sacchani, ARYA attanga magga, buddha arya namo arya namo buddha

[@shashediri544]

Sir. Why Hinduism didn't spread beyond India like Buddhism ? Eg-East Asian countries and central Asia..etc.Thank you!

[@AmritZoad]

It did. Its just not called Hinduism there. People in Thailand, Sri Lanka worship many Hindu deities. The reason being Hinduism wasn't an organised religion like Islam or Christianity. Meaning there was no name of the religion, Hindu being a geographical term. The beliefs spread around the neighbouring nations was mere due to the prominence or soft-power of Indian Kingdoms.

[@shashediri544]

@@AmritZoad In Sri Lanka ,Hindu gods worshipping began after the 13th century due to South Indian invasion. But earl;y Buddhists didn't worship Hindu gods

[@dontTalkBullshit]

Because Hindu gurus didn't become missionaries like buddhists and they didn't go outside to spread Hinduism but some years ago a 1500 years old Vishnu idol was found in Russia.

[@witchilich]

Buddhism like Christianity was designed around missionary activities. Its easier to spread Buddhism and with it Indian culture, kinda like how Christianty helps spreading western culture. Such a shame that Buddhism declined in India.

[@shashediri544]

@@witchilich Christianity declined in Byzantine Empire(Turkeye ) whic was the first Christian country.

[@shivansh9813]

Great Video

[@God.Narayan.is.Real.Truth.]

And he is my one of the Most favourite King ever🖤

[@mrperfect-mh4qm]

Chattari ARYA sacchani, ARYA attanga magga, buddha arya namo arya namo buddha

[@rajeshreddy2805]

All hail Samrat Shashank🕉🚩⚡️⚡️⚡️💪

[@Samrat_akash]

MC

[@Error_bhoi]

​@@Samrat_akashbc

[@AspirantKanishka]

No

[@Chandragauda01]

THANKS😁

[@pruthvirajchavan-patil380]

Then you have no right to criticize aurangzeb or any Islamic invader who destroyed temples

[@drsanjaykumar3448]

The truth might be lying between the two extremes

[@alaypatel6050]

Jayavarman 7 of combodia force converted his whole polulation to buddhism from hinduism. Nobody will tell you this.

[@trueRationalThinker]

*Hell* *Shashanka* Bengali King who destroyed pirated version (buddhism) of original Jainism🫡🫡🚩🚩🚩

[@sridharbhatk3510]

We cannot give final judgement on any historical event. If we without any prejudices or hatredness or feel enimity towards any community analyse an event we may imagine somekind of historical truth. If we study and observe d philosophy & average behaviour of upper caste community,this kind of enimity mentality was there among Brahmins of those days. So, violence against Buddhists community is much possible. But If we see d recent Srilankan &Mayanmar history, Buddhists too had must have used violence. Unless we all Indians ask questions to ourselves ,we cannot imagine real history.

[@pikachue602]

Hmm... After all history is the perspective of the past but based on the observation of the powerful ones.

[@alpha-vs1fx]

It wasn't there among any indian communities let alone brahmins who were known for being peaceful. Wtf are you talking about.

[@pikachue602]

@@alpha-vs1fx peaceful in middle ages puhhhh!!! 😝🤣🤣 In 11th century India and all nearby nations were a violent and disturbed places... We're peaceful only now that too is constantly disturbed by some fringes.... About Buddha creating peace and Ashokan era bring peaceful .. these stories looks so much like some urban fairytopia myths

[@alpha-vs1fx]

@@pikachue602 when did I say that everything was peaceful lol. Ofcourse wars happened all the time , but because of indian ethics of war the damage to civilians and farms was rare and much less compared to other places. Brahmins were a priestly class and were rarely involved in fighting. Compared to the entire ancient world , you would be far..far safer in india and would enjoy much higher living standards too.

[@pikachue602]

@@alpha-vs1fx that can be accepted to a certain degree

[@TheRakeshgautam]

Even a kid would say this is a made up story....1000 cows milk...what the hack...there are so many bodhist sites remained during hindus rule for 1000 years...why the hell were they waiting for islam to come to india and destroy those sites?....or taliban to destroy bamiyan statues after 2000 years??😂, all this could have been done by mighty hindus themselves.

[@tivo3720]

As a Bengali I'm proud of the Garuda Samrat Shashanka ❤ what a great king who chopped off the poisonous snake 🐍. Buddhists always discriminated Hinduism... They converted our temples in South east Asia to Buddhist.

[@newaryamen]

Atleast they were not casteist

[@tivo3720]

@@newaryamen u really think that !!! I think u don't know racist Buddha and Buddhism is towards women. And the Bodhisattvas can only born in Brahmin and khastriya family. Not in other caste. Lol.

[@tivo3720]

@@newaryamen u know nothing about Buddhists then

[@xandercage5871]

​@@tivo3720bohisattavas are for sure born in other castes.Check out 84 mahasiddhas and their castes.

[@manthanpandya7501]

Interestingly, the thumbnail of this video where Buddha's image is defaced and hands are broken must be a reason of Islamic conquest and not by Shashanka certainly. I hope when you will start making videos of medieval times, you must consider making videos of Bigotry of these foreign rulers and rigidity of their faith. Historians should be neutral and cover all perspectives.

[@satyakichatterjee4229]

I am from Gauda

[@technoshankar5871]

W Shashank⚔️

[@neenaobhrai273]

I don’t understand what was the purpose to destroyed the bodhy tree 🌳🤔

[@Rakshita442]

Ye pehle jake ashok ki srilankan wife tishyarakshita se puchho ki usne boddhi tree kyun Destroyed kiya.. Sabse pehle toh usi ne ye kaam kiya.

[@vasuvasudevan1827]

The channel seems largely to rehash what I recall reading some forty years ago! We need smarter, questioning, kids taking up history - understanding there's absolutely no money in this business. 🙂

[@LordLebu]

Manjushree is one word.

[@sunnybing1021]

☸️☸️☸️☸️ 🙏🙏🙏🙏..... Namo buddhay.... Jay bhim

[@sauravojha232]

Bahi Hindi me video baniye pls

[@JayVardhanSingh]

Hindi mein hmara doosra channel h. Ye rhaa link www.youtube.com/@ThestoryofIndia

[@sauravojha232]

@@JayVardhanSingh uspe subscribe kra hai par uss pe kmm videos hai app batate hai to sbb jldi jldi revise ho jata hai to please jldi jaldi video upload kara kijye app ka bahut dhanyawad

[@avik4343]

Jai Mahārājādhirāja Shashanka 🙏

[@Aeyo]

Bad press echos through ages.

[@NN94887]

ब्रह्मण धर्म इस actual enemy of buddhisam ,and ब्रह्मण people either destroyed buddhist history or converted according to themselves.

[@jyotivyas9286]

Even bauddh panth came from outside Bharat ...Nepal s gautam buddh.

[@rishabhadarsh5227]

Siddharth was born in Nepal Buddha was Enlightened/born in Bodh Gaya

[@joydeeproy1580]

Sad and shameful story from our history.

[@avik4343]

Nothing shameful, its a blant lie made by Buddhists to make shashanka look evil. He just did not supported Buddhism and spread Shaivism that's why they are so but hurted.

[@avik4343]

I am guessing you are from Kolkata?

[@joydeeproy1580]

@@avik4343 Only born in there, grew up in Bombay😏

[@avik4343]

@@joydeeproy1580 knew it 😑

[@dang_972]

Jay Maharaj Shashanka. Har har Mahadev

[@dionisiodussart5629]

Indians wanting to get rid of buddhism were just faithful to their true identity. Buddhism had proven to help the Greeks, in their ambiguous love of India that was actually a willing to conquer it. After invading the northwest (including current Afghanistan) of India, the greek-bactrian kingdom had led succesful attacks to the middle of India. The greek-buddhist joke had to stop.

[@subhashsahay5218]

This is quite the propaganda, Sir. The fact is that Buddhist monks of Sagala region only auded the Greeks for which they paid a fair price later on. Moreover Vedas were primarily composed in Punjab and later on in Kuru-Pancala region. Other than their antiquity, in no other factor they are supposedly more Indian than Buddhist Tripitaka and Mahayana Sutras. Moreover what Identity are you talking about, sir? Vaishnavism emerged out of Vedic traditions from Mathura region, Shaivism and Jainism were more ancient systems, Buddha in his lifetime alone had travelled nearly the whole of Northern India. This is not ignoring the fact that Kalpa Sutras of Vedas mention Eastern India in highly negative terms. Magadha itself is hardly positively mentioned in Puranic sources. Rather than saying Indians, sir, you should say Indians from Punjab, Haryana and Western UP as for most others, they had their own systems which were submerged later on in Vedic and Buddhist systems creating the greatest wave of mysticism the world ever witnessed

[@subhashsahay5218]

@@hemishshah6666 I did not say that, sir. Rather they emerged primarily in Kuru-Panchala regions

[@subhashsahay5218]

@hemishshah6666 They were not foreign to Sindhu Region. Rather they are largely native to these regions

[@subhashsahay5218]

@@hemishshah6666 Vedic culture emerged in Greater Punjab that comprises Pakistani Punjab and Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. Vaishnavism emerged from mixture of older Vedic Idea of Narayana, growing importance of Vishnu amongst 33 gods in late Vedic Period and rise of Pancavira tradition emerged in Mathura region. They soon mixed together and developed into Pancaratra tradition which is the primary source of Vaishnavism

[@subhashsahay5218]

@@hemishshah6666 All are native. Buddhism is also native and not foreign as the initial comment tried to prove. Indian Identity is inherently a combination of multiple ideas rather than being primarily Vedic or only Vedic

[@JaiPrakashShivaji]

Greatest Enemy of Boudha are Bramhans

[@shashanksrivastava55]

You are lieing....

[@user-ep5qe3ts5j]

Jay vardhan singh is trying his best to degrade hindu kings. What about bamyan buddha statue which was destroyed by allah ke bande. 😂You won't even look on these things. What about nalanda University which was destroyed by bakhtiyar khilji. And the miracles which happened doesn't it applies in hindu puranas or are they so disgusting for you.

[@jitenderchaurasia5519]

Warier Chool . hoon.satwahan.Mughal.Turki afgani purtagis duch British All ruled after Buddh death

[@muhammedasifjjaleel9985]

No. 1 pushyamitra Shunga

[@ahumbletumble]

Mohmmad no 1

[@-rate6326]

He has a video on him. You can watch it

[@Devpy-be7uf]

should people believe followers of so called peaceful guy who kill umm qirfa in most gruesome way and did bad things to her young innocent daughter. he who married widows after killing their husbands Killer of a mother who was feeding milk to her child. (asma bint marwan) the guy who married his daughter in law. i can go on and on

[@Devpy-be7uf]

Please ban book which teach and promote concepts like jihad, maal-e-ghanimat, kafir-momin, tahrush, harem, jaziya, ghazi, ghazwa jahannam, jannath, gilma, houris darul harb - darul islam nikah, muta'a, talak, halaala , rajm,

[@akitodaisuke6532]

Buddhism was perished by violence otherwise no one had guts to oppose peaceful buddhism

[@GyanPrakash-gj9wb]

Then read about Adi Shankracharya, who just by Shashtrartha defeated the concept of Budhhism being a pacifist kinda religion

[@behappy8248]

It never perished completely. Indian Buddhism is still followed in Nepal and Sri Lanka (and somewhat even Bangladesh). Even in British India, Bengal had a significant population of tradional Buddhists. However, it's true that the decline of Buddhism in India was because of violence. As the historic consensus goes, it was done by islamic invaders, particularly by the Khiljis. Bakhtiyar Khilji destroyed Nalanda University to destroy Buddhism and spread Islam.

[@abhinnakhale7520]

Typical bhimta logic🤡

[@behappy8248]

@@GyanPrakash-gj9wb That's false. This narrative is of pretty recent times. The biographies of Shankara never mention any significant debate with a Buddhist scholar. However, he debated ALL the philosophies of that time. In fact, the primary rival of Shankara's Vedanta was the orthodox Vedic philosophy called Mimansa (Purva Mimansa). His most significant debate is mentioned to be against Vedic ritualistic orthodoxy propagating householder life, with a Brahmin Mimansa scholar called Mandana Mishra.

[@akitodaisuke6532]

@@abhinnakhale7520 cope it ramtey. 😆 all your ramtus lives on myths and no proof or scientific evidence.

[@mrperfect-mh4qm]

Chattari ARYA sacchani, ARYA attanga magga, buddha arya namo arya namo buddha