"To my mind...Buddhism has always seemed to be not a new religion, but a natural development of the Indian mind in its various manifestations, religious, philosophical, social and political", says Prof Max Muller, the great British philologist. Buddhism is probably the greatest gift that India has offered to the world and has always been perceived as an offshoot of Hinduism. "Gautama (Buddha) was born and brought up and lived and died a Hindu", says another scholar Rhys Davis. India is the motherland of origin for both Hinduism and Buddhism. Over 1500 years ago Hinduism was being morphed a...
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