When it comes to Indian religion, it is easy to think that India is full of gods and goddesses. Cattle are sacred, so in many places you can't kill them and you can't eat beef. Monkeys are also gods, as Hinduism has the monkey god Hanuman. According to the Hindu ** description, Hinduism has 33 main gods, 3300 million gods, the mounts that the main god has ridden, the clothes he has worn, the things he touches, and every hair he has touched are considered gods, but I don't know how to conduct the census of the gods.
Plus there are Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, ** religion, Zoroastrianism, each with its own teachings, each with its own taboos, so eating in India is a hassle, you have to open a canteen, the safest way to do it, that is, to sell vegetables, curries and flying cakes.
There are many religions, and of course there are many conflicts, so religious conflicts in India have been in full swing throughout history. The most serious of these conflicts are between Hinduism and Islam, and between Hinduism and Sikhism.
After Islam entered India, there was the Delhi Sultanate, founded by the Turks, and the Mughal dynasty, founded by the Mongols, who fought to kill Buddhism and Hinduism.
However, Hinduism is a tenacious life, has always occupied the majority of the population, believers account for more than 80% of the country's population, after the Second World War, the irreconcilable contradictions between Islam and Hinduism, according to British statistics, the vendetta between the two sides, resulting in more than one million deaths, and the final result is the partition of India and Pakistan.
Since then, there have been large-scale bloody clashes in India over the land for mosques and Hindu temples.
As for Sikhism, it was originally in opposition to Hinduism and Islam, Hinduism has a caste system, Sikhism wants everyone to be equal, Hinduism worships gods, Sikhism wants to develop atheism, Islam has to veil women, Sikhism has to give women, Islam wants monopoly, and Sikhism wants religious freedom. So Hinduism also sees Sikhism as an enemy.
In the 80s of the last century, the Sikhs also tried to establish an independent state, the state of Kalistan, because the birthplace of Sikhism is an important granary of India, India could not bear the consequences of the state's independence, so the state was dissolved, and the state was included in the direct administration. The Sikhs also announced that they would not provide food to India, triggering the famous Golden Temple Incident, in which 576 people were killed in the conflict.
In retaliation, the Prime Minister's Guard, formed by Sikhs, killed Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The recent conflict between India and Canada is also due to India's assassination of Sikh leaders in Canada, which shows that India still regards Sikhism as a major problem.
And what about Buddhism?Tang Seng went to Tianzhu to learn scriptures, and he was also famous in Nalanda Temple, why did he almost disappear in India later?Quite simply, Buddhism's belief in the equality of all beings is incompatible with India's deep caste system, and it is not really dominant in India.
Moreover, after Hinduism became dominant, Buddhism lost the protection of the regime. Of course, the power of Buddhism, which is not only used by force, in a place like India, which is full of religious wars, has long been unable to play.
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